PDF to Text
Extract the text content from a PDF in your browser using pdf.js. Copy or download as plain text.
Runs in your browser — files never leave your device
Note: scanned PDFs (images of text) have no selectable text — use an OCR tool for those.
How it works
Extract the selectable text from a PDF into plain text you can copy or download.
Useful for quoting, searching, or moving content out of a document — all locally.
Frequently asked questions
- Is my PDF uploaded?
- No — text is extracted in your browser with pdf.js; nothing is sent anywhere.
- Why is no text found?
- Scanned PDFs are images of text and contain no selectable text. Those need OCR, which this tool doesn’t do.
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