PDF to Text
Extract the text from a PDF.
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About PDF to Text
PDF to Text pulls the plain text out of a PDF so you can copy, edit, or reuse it without retyping. Open a document and the tool reads the text from its pages and lays it out for you as plain, unformatted text. It's a quick way to lift a few paragraphs from a report, grab the wording from a contract, or move content out of a PDF and into a document or email.
The tool is completely free with no account and no sign-up. It runs entirely in your browser using pdf.js, so the document is processed on your own device and never uploaded to a server. There are no watermarks, no usage limits, and nothing to install.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the PDF to Text tool free?
- Yes, it is completely free with no account, no sign-up, and no usage limits. You can extract text from as many PDFs as you like.
- Is my PDF uploaded to a server?
- No. The document is read entirely in your browser using pdf.js, so it stays on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or sent anywhere.
- How do I use it and what do I get back?
- Open your PDF and the tool extracts the text from its pages as plain, unformatted text that you can copy or save. Fonts, colours, and layout are not carried over, only the words.
- Does it keep the original formatting and images?
- No. It returns plain text only, so styling, tables, and images are left out. That keeps the result easy to paste into another document, where you can format it however you need.
- Can it read text from a scanned PDF?
- Only if the PDF already contains real, selectable text. A scanned page is stored as an image, so there is no text to extract and the tool cannot read it by sight.