PDF to Text Extractor
Extract all readable text from a PDF file.
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Text-based PDFs only (not scanned images)
About PDF to Text
Extracts all readable text from a PDF file and displays it as plain text you can copy, search, or paste anywhere. Works for text-based PDFs (not scanned image PDFs which require OCR).
Use Cases
Copying text from locked PDFs, extracting content for analysis, converting PDF articles to plain text for editing, pulling data from PDF exports.
How It Works
Uses PDF.js running in your browser to parse each page of the PDF and extract the text content layer. Works only for PDFs that contain actual text (not scanned images).
FAQs
Does it work on scanned PDFs?
No. Scanned PDFs are images — extracting text from them requires OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which is not supported here.
Why is some text garbled?
PDFs with unusual embedded fonts or right-to-left scripts sometimes extract with formatting artefacts.