PDF to Text Converter

How to Extract Text from a PDF

1. Drop your PDF onto the tool, or click Choose PDF File to browse for it.
2. Look over the page thumbnails. Click the trash icon on any page you don't need, or drag the cards to change the order.
3. Set your Text Settings. Preserve Layout keeps line breaks (Yes) or runs the text together (No). Include Page Headers adds the file name, page number and a timestamp above each page's text.
4. Click Convert to Text. The pages are read one by one inside your browser tab.
5. Download your text. Grab a single page as a .txt file, or click Download All (ZIP) for every page plus one combined file.

Why Use This PDF to Text Converter

• Your file stays on your device. The PDF is read by code running in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server.
• Choose how the text flows. Keep the original line breaks when lines matter, or switch to continuous text when you only want to paste paragraphs somewhere else.
• One file per page, or everything at once. Each page downloads as its own .txt file. The ZIP also holds a combined file with all the text, in the order you set.
• Skip what you don't need. Remove pages before converting and they stay out of the results.
• Large files are fine up to a point. Each PDF can be as large as your plan allows; the limit is shown on this page.

Good to know: this tool reads the text that is already inside the PDF. A scanned document, or a photo saved as a PDF, has no text to read, so the result comes out empty. There is no OCR here. Layout is kept line by line, so tables and multi-column pages may need a quick tidy afterwards. The output is plain text only: no fonts, colors or images.

FAQ

How do I copy text out of a PDF into a text file?

Drop the PDF onto the tool, leave the settings as they are and click Convert to Text. Each page can be downloaded as a .txt file, or you can take everything in one ZIP.

Why is the extracted text empty?

The PDF is probably a scan or a photo. Those files contain pictures of words, not the words themselves, and this tool can only read real text. You would need OCR software to turn the pictures into text first.

Is my PDF uploaded to a server?

No. Your file stays on your device. The text is extracted by your browser, so the document never travels anywhere.

What does Preserve Layout do?

Yes starts a new line wherever the text moves down the page, so the result looks like the original lines. No joins everything into one continuous run of text, which is easier to paste into an email or a document.

Can I get the text from only some pages?

Yes. Click the trash icon on the pages you want to leave out before you press Convert to Text. Only the pages still in the grid are extracted.

Is there a file size limit?

Each PDF can be as large as your plan allows; the limit is shown on this page.