PDF to Text Extractor
Extract all plain text from a PDF file and download as a .txt file. Free, browser-based — your file is never uploaded.
Converted in your browser — your files are never uploaded
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or click to browse · .pdf · up to 30 files, 100 MB each
What to expect
- Text from each page is separated by a page header.
- Scanned/image-only PDFs will return empty text (OCR not supported).
- Layout and formatting are not preserved.
Frequently asked questions
Does it work with scanned PDFs?
No — scanned PDFs contain images, not real text. OCR (optical recognition) would be required for those.
How is multi-page text handled?
Each page's text is extracted and separated with a page header in the output TXT file.
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