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PDF Text Extractor

Pull all the text out of a PDF as plain text you can search, copy or reuse.

To extract text from a PDF, add the file and the text layer of every page is read with pdf.js and returned as plain text. If the PDF is a scan, the pages are images with no text layer, and the tool tells you that rather than returning an empty result.

Runs in your browser
Privacy
Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded
Cost
Free, unlimited, no sign-up

Frequently asked questions

Why did it find no text in my PDF?

The document is almost certainly a scan or photograph. Those PDFs contain images with no underlying text layer, so extraction returns nothing. Reading them requires OCR, which is a different process.

How to use the pdf text extractor

  1. 1Select your pdf file — the file stays on your device and is never uploaded.
  2. 2Choose the output.
  3. 3Press Run, then download the result when it is ready.

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