Extract text from PDF
Read the text in a PDF file locally in the browser and download it as a text file.
Local
About this tool
What this tool does
Reads the full text content of a PDF file page by page and provides it as a plain text file to download.
How it works
Upload the PDF, download the extracted text as a .txt file — no settings needed.
Privacy
This operation runs directly in your browser. Your file never leaves your device.
Limitations
Only works on PDFs with embedded text. Scanned or purely image-based PDFs with no text layer produce an empty text file — that's what our OCR tool is for.
FAQ
Your PDF likely contains only scanned images rather than real text. For such files, use our OCR tool, which recognizes text within images.
No, the tool returns plain text without fonts, tables, or layout — page breaks are marked with separators in the text.