Extract all the text from a PDF — page by page, with word and character counts. Nothing is uploaded.
Sometimes you need the text inside a PDF, not the PDF itself — to paste into another document, to search through it, to feed it into a translation tool, or simply to read it without a PDF viewer. This tool extracts every piece of text from every page and presents it in a plain text box you can copy or download.
The extraction reads the text layer that the PDF carries — the same text you can select with the cursor in a PDF viewer. It does not run OCR: if the PDF is a scanned image with no text layer, no text will be found, and the tool suggests using the OCR tool instead.
Page breaks are marked with a separator line so you can tell where one page ends and the next begins. The word and character counts give you a quick size estimate. Everything runs in your browser — the file is never uploaded.
No. The file is read and processed entirely in your browser. Nothing is transmitted, stored or logged.
The PDF probably contains scanned images without a text layer. Use the Image OCR tool to recognize text from images.
No — the output is plain text. Bold, italic, columns and tables are lost because plain text has no formatting. The tool extracts the raw text content in reading order.
No. The tool cannot open encrypted PDFs. Remove the password first or use the Unlock PDF tool.
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