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PDF to text

Get all the text out of a PDF as a plain text file, in reading order, ready to paste anywhere.

    Your files never leave your device. Everything happens in this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, and closing the tab erases it.

    How it works

    1. Drop the PDF whose text you need.
    2. Press Convert to text.
    3. Open the .txt file in any editor, or paste its text where you need it.

    Questions

    Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?

    No. The text is read inside your browser, on your device.

    What comes out?

    Every word of the PDF in reading order, line by line as in the PDF, with a blank line between paragraphs and two between pages. A wide gap between a table’s columns becomes a tab. Right-to-left text such as Arabic and Hebrew comes out in the right order.

    What doesn’t?

    Pictures, and the look: fonts, bold and sizes. For tables, PDF to Excel puts each value in its own cell; for the look, PDF to Word keeps headings, bold and italics.

    Can it read a scanned document?

    Yes. Pages that are only pictures, a whole scan or a few scanned pages in a typed PDF, are read on your device (OCR) in the language you pick: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch, Indonesian, Turkish, Polish, Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese, Korean or Arabic. Up to 50 scanned pages at a time on a computer, 10 on a phone. Check names and numbers: a blurry scan can be misread.

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