Free PDF to Text Extractor Online
Extract plain text from any PDF file. Results are displayed page by page. Copy to clipboard or download as a .txt file. No upload required — runs entirely in your browser.
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PDF files only · Max 100 MB · Text-based PDFs only (not scanned images)
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About PDF to Text
This tool extracts embedded text content from PDFs using PDF.js (Mozilla's open-source PDF rendering library). It works on text-based PDFs — those that contain actual text characters. Scanned PDFs (images of documents) contain no embedded text and will produce empty or garbled output; for those, you would need OCR software.
Extracted text preserves the reading order as determined by PDF.js. Complex multi-column layouts may have text in a different order than visually apparent.
Frequently Asked Questions
This happens with scanned PDFs — documents where pages are stored as images rather than text. There is no text to extract. You would need OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to convert scanned images to text.
No. PDF.js processes the file entirely in your browser. Your PDF data never leaves your device.