PDF to Text

Pull the text out of a PDF, with line breaks kept intact.

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Extract text from a PDF free — in your browser, with no upload

Get the words out of a PDF when copy and paste in your reader gives you a mess. The text is pulled out page by page with line breaks preserved, optionally marked up with page separators, ready to copy or download as a .txt file.

Your files never leave your browser

Other PDF sites upload your document to a server, then cap how many files you can process or ask you to pay. This one does the work on your own device in plain JavaScript — nothing is transmitted, nothing is stored, and there is no daily limit. Use a tool once and it keeps working with no connection at all afterwards.

What you can do

Line breaks preserved — items are grouped by their position, so the text keeps its shape.

Page markers — optionally separate each page so you know where text came from.

Copy or download — put it on the clipboard, or save a .txt file.

Character and word count — see how much text the document actually holds.

Honest about scans — if the PDF is images of text, the tool says so instead of returning nothing.

Nothing uploaded — runs in your browser, with no limits.

Frequently asked questions

Why does it find no text in my PDF?

Because the document is almost certainly a scan — a picture of a page rather than real text. Extraction can only read text that is actually stored as text. Reading a scan needs OCR, which this tool does not do.

Is my document uploaded?

No. The text is extracted in your browser by the PDF.js engine and never leaves your device.

Will the layout be preserved?

Line breaks are, because items are grouped by their vertical position. Columns, tables and complex layouts will flatten — extraction gives you the words, not the design.

Can I extract text from just one page?

Not directly. Use the Split PDF tool to pull out the pages you want first, then extract from the result.

What does the page marker option do?

It inserts a line like “--- Page 3 ---” before each page, which is useful when you need to trace text back to its source.

Is it free?

Yes, completely — no account and no limits.