PDF to Text

No upload · runs in your browser

Runs entirely in your browser, nothing is uploaded.

How it works

PDF to Text: copy the text layer out of a PDF

Reads the embedded text layer of a PDF and hands it back as one block per page, ready to copy or to save as a .txt named after the file.

What this does
  • One block of text per page, in document order
  • Counts the words and characters it recovered
  • Layout whitespace is collapsed, so columns and tables come back as running text
  • pdf.js reads the text layer in this tab; the document is never sent anywhere
FAQ

Only if the scan has already been through OCR. A scan is a picture of a page: there is no text layer underneath it, so the extractor finds nothing and says so. Run the file through OCR PDF first, then come back here.

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