PDF to Text

Extract all the text content of your PDF into a plain .txt file.

About this tool

Copying text from a PDF page by page is slow, and formatting often breaks along the way. PDF to Text extracts the complete text content of your document in one pass and saves it as a clean .txt file you can edit anywhere.

The extraction preserves line structure where possible. Note that scanned PDFs are images and contain no embedded text — those require OCR, which works differently from text extraction.

How to use PDF to Text

1

Add your PDF file

Drag and drop the document to extract from.

2

Click Apply

All embedded text is extracted page by page.

3

Download the .txt file

The extracted text downloads as a plain text file.

Frequently asked questions

Why did my PDF produce no text?
The document is probably a scan — its pages are images with no embedded text layer. Text extraction only works on digitally created PDFs.
Is the layout preserved?
Line breaks are reconstructed from the text positions, but complex layouts like tables and columns become linear text — that's inherent to the .txt format.
Which languages does extraction support?
All of them. Extraction reads the text embedded in the PDF, so any language stored in the document — including Arabic and Chinese — is extracted correctly.

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