PDF to text

Choose your PDF, choose whether to add a page marker before each page, then press Extract text. A plain .txt file downloads with the text in reading order. You can open it in any text editor or paste it into a document. There's no sign-up, and nothing is uploaded.

Because the PDF is most likely a scan. A scanned PDF contains pictures of pages, not text, and reading text from pictures needs OCR, which this tool doesn't do. If you can't select text in your PDF viewer, this tool won't find any either. The previews look normal either way.

Text comes out in reading order, line by line, so simple documents look fine. Complex tables and multi-column layouts may run together and need tidying afterwards. For tables, copying from the PDF viewer into a spreadsheet sometimes keeps the structure better. Simple documents need little cleanup.

No. Everything runs on your device, so the file is never uploaded. That makes it suitable for contracts, policies and statements whose text you want to reuse privately. After the page loads, extraction works even without an internet connection. Nothing is stored or shared with anyone.

Page markers add a short line such as a page heading before each page's text, so you can tell where each page starts in the .txt file. Turn them on for long documents you'll need to quote or reference. Turn them off when you just want continuous text.

No. The output is plain text, so bold, italics, fonts and colours are dropped. Line breaks follow the PDF's lines. If you need formatting, copying text from a PDF viewer into a word processor may keep a little more, but often needs cleaning too. Plain text is easiest to reuse.

It extracts whatever text is stored in the PDF, including Hindi and other scripts, as long as the PDF stores real text and not images. Some PDFs use unusual font encodings, which can produce garbled characters. In that case the text can't be recovered reliably.

You need OCR software, which recognises text in images. This tool doesn't do OCR. Many phone scanner apps and office suites include OCR. Once a scan has been OCR'd into a text PDF, this tool can extract its text normally. Check OCR output for mistakes.

Extract the pages you need first with Extract PDF pages, then run the shorter PDF through this tool. That gives you a text file with only the relevant pages. Both tools run in your browser, so the document never leaves your device. It's quick and private.

Yes. Choose the PDF in a modern mobile browser, extract the text and download the .txt file, which most phones can open or share. For very long documents, a computer is faster and easier for editing the text afterwards. No app or account is needed for any of it.

Not directly. Open the PDF with its password, save an unlocked copy, then extract text from that copy. Some PDFs also block copying text even without a password; those restrictions belong to the document's author and should be respected. Delete unlocked copies afterwards. Nothing is uploaded.

PDFs store text as positioned lines, not paragraphs, so the extracted text follows the page's line breaks. Joining lines back into paragraphs is quick in a text editor, or use our Remove extra spaces tool to tidy spacing afterwards. It only takes a minute or two for most documents.

Extract the text here, then paste it into the Word counter tool. That gives you words, characters and reading time. It's handy for checking the length of an essay, an article or a translation job that's priced by the word. Both tools run in your browser.

There's no fixed limit because nothing is uploaded. Very long PDFs take longer on a phone. Most reports, policies and statements are extracted in seconds on any recent device, and the resulting text file is small. Closing other tabs helps on older devices with less memory.

Yes, free with no sign-up, no watermark and no daily limit. It's one of many free tools from Marketiism that run in your browser, including text tools for counting, cleaning and comparing the text you extract. Business use is fine, and nothing is added to the text you extract.