Extract text from a PDF
Upload a PDF and get all its text, ready to copy or download as a .txt file. Everything happens in your browser, nothing is uploaded.
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One PDF file
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How it works
The tool reads the PDF's text layer and rebuilds it page by page. It works with «real» PDFs (created from Word, Google Docs, digital exports). If the PDF is a scan or a photo, the text is actually an image and can't be extracted this way: in that case you need OCR (optical character recognition).
What it's for
Handy to quickly copy a document's content, reuse paragraphs, search for words, or turn a PDF into a simple editable text file.