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PDF to Text

PDF to Text

Convert PDF content into clean, editable plain text in seconds.

Convert PDF to text in your browser

Drop PDF files here. They are read on your device and never uploaded.

Max 100MB per fileUp to 50 files

How to Extract Text from a PDF and Export to TXT

How to Use PDF to Text

  1. 1

    Upload PDF Document

    Drop your document into the text extraction workspace.

  2. 2

    Choose Text Mode

    Select Flow Text for continuous reading or Layout Mode to preserve column spacing.

  3. 3

    Copy or Export TXT

    Copy text to clipboard or download as a .txt file.

What PDF to Text Can Do

  • Layout Spacing Retention

    Turns the measured gaps between words into runs of spaces, and reads a two-column page one column at a time.

  • One-Click Copy & Export

    Copy the text, or save it as TXT, DOC or JSON — and a whole queue as one ZIP.

  • Unicode & Multi-Language

    Extracts international character sets, accents, and symbols, including right-to-left scripts.

  • Runs On Your Device

    Nothing is uploaded. Pages are read one at a time, and a scanned page is recognised by an OCR engine the browser downloads once, so a long scan takes a moment rather than no time at all.

Tools & Settings Reference

Flow Text Mode
Rejoins the lines of a paragraph into one continuous line, puts words split by a hyphen back together, and keeps a blank line as a paragraph break.
Layout Preserved Mode
Keeps indentation, columns and tabular alignment by spacing words out to match their measured positions on the page.
Page Break Markers
Starts every page with a "--- Page N ---" line, or "--- Page N (OCR) ---" for a page read with OCR. With it off, pages are separated by a blank line.
Text Recognition (OCR)
Pages with no text layer of their own (scans, photos) are drawn at 300 DPI and read with OCR in the language you pick, one of 55. It can also read every page from its image, or be switched off. The OCR engine and the language are downloaded from a public CDN the first time; the PDF itself never leaves your device.

Frequently Asked Questions

It reads the bounding box of every word, measures the median character width on the page, and turns each horizontal gap into that many spaces — so indentation and column separation survive as plain ASCII. Column splitting looks for a vertical gutter between blocks of prose, keeps a title or header that runs across it whole, and leaves a table of short cells unsplit; where there is no clear gutter the page is read as one block. It is a spacing heuristic, not a table parser, so check anything you plan to feed into a spreadsheet.

This tool reads the text a PDF already carries, which is exact. A page with no text layer of its own is recognised with OCR on its own and labelled, so a mixed document still comes out complete. Use the Scanned PDF to Text tool when the whole document is scanned and you want the preprocessing controls (brightness, contrast, black-and-white threshold, deskew), per-word confidence scores, or a searchable PDF as the output.

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