Merge PDFs
Combine up to 10 PDF files into one document in the order you choose.
PDF & WordPDF & Word
PDF to text
Extract selectable text from PDF pages into a plain-text download.
Text-only conversion. Original layouts, images, tables, typography and scanned text are not reconstructed. No OCR is included.
Your result
A little input. A useful result.
Choose your file or files, then select Extract text.
About this tool
Recover the text layer from a PDF and copy or download it as UTF-8 text. The result follows the text order stored in the PDF, which may differ from the visual reading order in columns, tables or complex designs. Select up to 100 pages per extraction.
Sources & methodMozilla PDF.js: PDF rendering and text extraction
How to use it
- 1
Choose a PDF that contains selectable text.
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Select pages and whether to include page labels.
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Extract the text, review its reading order, then copy or download.
Questions, answered
Can this read a scanned PDF?
No. Scanned pages that contain only images need OCR. The tool reports when no selectable text is found.
Will tables and columns stay aligned?
Not reliably. PDF text extraction does not reconstruct layout. Check reading order and spacing before reusing the text.
How can I clean up extracted text?
Review the original first, then use the whitespace cleaner for unwanted spacing or the find-and-replace tool for repeated artifacts. Avoid removing every line break blindly: a line break may separate headings or table rows.
Use extracted text as a starting point
Plain text is useful for searching, quoting or cleaning up notes. Check extracted passages against the original before quoting them. Text extraction can change reading order on multi-column pages and split words at line breaks; it cannot read words that exist only inside scanned images.