PDF to Text Converter - Extract Text from PDF Online
Extract all text content from PDF files instantly in your browser. No uploads, no servers — your files stay private. Supports multi-page PDFs with accurate text extraction.
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About This Tool
How to Use
- 1Click the upload area or drag and drop your PDF file (up to 50 MB).
- 2Optionally toggle the "Include page numbers" setting to add page separators to the output.
- 3Click the "Convert" button to start extracting text from every page.
- 4Review the extracted text in the preview panel to make sure it looks correct.
- 5Click "Download" to save the result as a plain .txt file, or copy the text to your clipboard.
When to Use
- •When you need to copy large sections of text from a PDF that does not allow direct selection.
- •When converting PDF reports or papers into editable plain-text documents for further processing.
- •When you want to index or search through PDF content in a text editor or command-line tool.
- •When extracting data from invoices, receipts, or legal documents for record-keeping.
- •When preparing text for translation, summarization, or natural-language processing pipelines.
Tips & Tricks
- ✨For best results, use PDFs that contain real text layers rather than scanned images. Image-only PDFs require OCR, which this tool does not perform.
- ✨If the extracted text has odd spacing, the PDF may use non-standard fonts or character mappings. Try opening the PDF in a different viewer first to confirm.
- ✨Enable "Include page numbers" when working with long documents so you can quickly locate sections in the output.
- ✨The 50 MB file-size limit covers the vast majority of text-based PDFs. If your file is larger, consider splitting it first with a Split PDF tool.
- ✨Since all processing happens locally in your browser, conversion speed depends on your device. Large PDFs with hundreds of pages may take a few seconds.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. All processing happens locally in your browser using JavaScript. Your file never leaves your device, making this tool completely private and safe for sensitive documents.
This tool extracts embedded text layers from PDFs. If your PDF is a scanned image without a text layer, the output will be empty or minimal. For scanned documents you would need an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool.
You can convert PDF files up to 50 MB in size. This covers the vast majority of text-heavy documents such as reports, papers, and ebooks.
The tool extracts raw text content in reading order. Basic line breaks are preserved, but complex formatting like tables, columns, headers, and footers may not appear exactly as they do in the original PDF. The output is plain text (.txt).
For PDFs with standard embedded fonts and a proper text layer, extraction accuracy is extremely high — essentially character-perfect. Accuracy may decrease for PDFs with unusual font encodings, custom character maps, or embedded images used in place of text.
Currently this tool processes one PDF at a time. If you need to batch-convert several files, simply run them one after another — each conversion only takes a few seconds.
This tool works in all modern browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. It uses the pdf.js library maintained by Mozilla, which has broad cross-browser compatibility.
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