PDF Text Extractor
Extract all text from a PDF, page by page, in your browser — nothing uploaded. Line breaks are kept, pages/characters/lines are counted, and mixed scanned pages are disclosed instead of silently skipped; copy or download the result as TXT.
Processing and data safety
Section titled “Processing and data safety”This tool runs entirely in your browser — your files are never uploaded to a server.
Input and output
Section titled “Input and output”- Formats: PDF, TXT
- Flow: PDF → plain text (TXT)
How to use
Section titled “How to use”- Open a PDF (drop it in; nothing is uploaded).
- Click “Extract text” — progress shows page by page.
- Review the extracted text, then copy or download it.
Key details and limits
Section titled “Key details and limits”- Scanned PDFs need OCR first (full-text-empty input gets an explicit OCR pointer).
- Mixed PDFs (some pages scanned/image-only) are disclosed with a counted notice — those pages are empty in the output.
- Anonymous uploads have a per-file size cap (the exact value is shown in the tool area; higher when signed in). Extraction runs entirely in your browser.
Common use cases
Section titled “Common use cases”- Drop in a PDF → click Extract text → copy or download