Pull the text out of a PDF, page by page, ready to copy. Free, runs entirely in your browser — your files are never uploaded.
How to use PDF to Text
Add the PDF you want the text from.
Read it back page by page, with optional page markers.
Copy it, or download it as a .txt file.
Frequently asked questions
Is the PDF uploaded?
Nothing is uploaded. The file is read into memory by the page and processed by your own browser, and the site’s Content Security Policy blocks outbound connections entirely — so it cannot send your file anywhere even if it tried.
Why did I get nothing back?
Almost certainly a scan. A scanned document is a picture of text, not text, so there is nothing to extract — the tool says so rather than handing you an empty file. Reading those needs OCR, which this does not do.
Why is the spacing odd in places?
A PDF stores positioned fragments rather than sentences, so line and word breaks have to be inferred from where each fragment sits. Columns, tables and headers are where that inference is least reliable.
Does this work on a password-protected PDF?
No. Remove the password in whatever opened it first, then extract the text.