PDF to Text
Extract plain text from PDF pages in your browser. Copy or download .txt without uploading — free, private, local processing.
Pull text out of a PDF — without sending it anywhere
Load a PDF and get readable plain text on your device. Copy a paragraph, export the whole document, or grab one page at a time. Extraction runs locally so contracts, logs, and research papers stay private.
What you can do with it
- Quote a clause from a contract
- Copy exact wording into email or a ticket without retyping from a locked PDF viewer.
- Feed text into another tool
- Export .txt for search, translation, or diffing against another version.
How to convert PDF to text
- Open your PDF — text extraction runs locally.
- Browse pages and copy, or download the full .txt export.
- For scans, run OCR first if no text appears.
Extract text without a cloud OCR pipeline
When you only need copy-pasteable words from a digital PDF, uploading to a “PDF to text” site exposes the whole file. Local extraction keeps contracts, logs, and research PDFs on your machine while you pull .txt for search, diff, or translation.
Digital PDFs vs scans
Text-based PDFs yield clean output immediately. Image-only scans need OCR first — run OCR PDF, then extract text here for a searchable workflow that still never leaves the browser.
Related reading and tools
- OCR PDF — Make scanned pages searchable before extracting text.
- Compare PDFs — Diff extracted wording between two PDF versions.
- PDF to Word — Need an editable .docx instead of plain .txt.