Pull the readable text out of a PDF and copy it straight into a document — with word and character counts as you go.
Pull the readable text out of a PDF and copy it straight into a document — with word and character counts as you go.
Copy the words out of any PDF. Upload the file and the full text is extracted with its column layout intact, so numbers in tables and forms stay on the right side of the line instead of running together.
Click the upload area to choose a PDF (or drag one onto it) and press Run. The extracted text appears on the page in a box you can select from — use your browser's copy shortcut to grab it, or press the download button for a .txt version of the whole document.
A scanned document is really a photograph of a page, so it holds no text to copy — the same is true of pages that were saved as images. This tool reads the text layer that already exists in the file and does not perform OCR. If your PDF is a scan, you need optical character recognition before the text can be extracted.
Text is extracted with the original horizontal spacing intact, which keeps two-column documents readable and stops the columns from merging into one. Where the PDF itself contains the text in a strange order, the extracted text follows that same order — extraction cannot correct a badly built source file.
Your PDF is uploaded to our server only to extract the text and is deleted after processing. Download links expire automatically and your document is never shared or stored long-term.
No account, no watermarks and no daily limits. Extract as many documents as you need.
The page is most likely a scan or an image with no text layer, so there is nothing to read. This tool extracts existing text and does not run OCR.
Yes. Every page of the PDF is processed, not just the first one, and you get a download button for the complete text.
Yes. The extracted text is shown in a selectable box, so you can select it and copy it into any document.
Horizontal spacing is preserved so tables, forms and multi-column pages still line up when the text is opened in a plain editor.
Temporarily, yes — the file has to be processed somewhere. It is deleted immediately after processing and download links expire automatically.
PDF to Text extracts the text layer of your PDF and shows it on the page, ready to copy, alongside word, character and line counts. The original column layout is preserved so text from tables and forms still lines up.
How to use: choose a PDF and press Run. The text appears on the page and a download button gives you a .txt file of the whole thing.
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