PDF to Text
Extract the text from a PDF. Free, no sign-up, files stay on your device.
Choose a PDF fileor drag and drop a file here
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How to use the pdf to text converter
- Choose a PDF — reports, e-books, invoices, articles.
- All pages are read automatically; enter a range like
2-5to limit it. - Copy the text or download it as a .txt file.
Get the words out of a PDF to quote them, translate them, feed them to an AI tool or edit them in Word. Line breaks are rebuilt from the position of the text on the page and optional markers show where each page starts. Scanned PDFs contain pictures instead of text — for those, convert the pages with PDF to JPG and then use our Image to Text (OCR) tool. The document is read by pdf.js in your browser and never uploaded.