PDF to Text
Extract all text content from your PDF into a plain text file.
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Maximum file size: 100MB
How to PDF to Text
Upload the PDF you want to grab text from.
The tool will process all pages and extract the text content.
Preview the extracted text and make any needed adjustments.
Click "Download Text" to save the text as a TXT file or copy it to your clipboard.
About PDF to Text
Pull all the text out of a PDF and get it as a plain TXT file. The reading order and paragraph breaks are kept intact. Useful when you want to paste content into another app, run a word count, or just work with the raw text without any formatting getting in the way.
Frequently Asked Questions
Plain text does not support formatting like bold or italic. The extracted text preserves the content and basic paragraph structure but not visual formatting.
Scanned PDFs are images, not text. Use the OCR PDF tool first to recognize the text, then come back here to extract it.
Table data comes out as text with spacing. If you need actual spreadsheet columns and rows, try the PDF to Excel tool instead.
Yes, there is a copy button that puts all the extracted text on your clipboard. You can also download it as a TXT file.
The extracted text uses UTF-8 encoding, supporting all languages and special characters present in your PDF document.
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