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Pull the text out of a PDF and save it as a plain text file, directly in your browser.
Drag & drop your file here
or browse from your device
Plain text opens anywhere, searches instantly, and pastes cleanly into any editor. It is the simplest way to get at what a PDF actually says.
Text is pulled from the file itself, so it stays exactly as written. A scanned PDF holds pictures of words rather than words, and those cannot be read this way.
A PDF does not store lines or paragraphs. It stores each piece of text along with the exact spot it sits on the page, rather like words arranged on a table. There is no record of which words belonged to the same sentence.
So the lines have to be worked out from those positions: pieces sitting at the same height become one line, and a gap wide enough becomes a space. Ordinary documents come through cleanly. Columns and tables can come out in a different order than they look, because on the page they are simply text in particular places.
Drag the file onto the upload area, or browse from your device.
Mark each page, or run it all together as one flowing document.
The text is read on your own device, with nothing uploaded to a server.
Copy it straight to your clipboard, or save it as a .txt file.
Add your PDF and run the tool. The text is pulled out on your own device and you can copy it straight away or download it as a .txt file.
Your PDF is almost certainly a scan. A scanned page holds a picture of the words rather than the words themselves, so there is no text in the file to pull out. Reading those needs OCR, which is a different job.
A PDF does not store lines or paragraphs. It stores each piece of text along with where it sits on the page, and the tool works out the lines from those positions. Ordinary documents come through cleanly. Columns, tables, and unusual layouts can come out in a different order than they look.
The text of a table comes through with each row on its own line and spaces between the columns. The table itself is not rebuilt, because a PDF has no idea it was ever a table.
No. Everything runs inside your browser on your own device. Your file is never sent anywhere, and nothing is stored.
No. Your PDF is left exactly as it is. The tool creates a new file for you to download.
Yes. It is completely free with no sign-up and no limits.
Continue working with your images and PDF files using these free browser based tools.