Extract Text from PDF
Pull selectable text out of a PDF and copy or download it as .txt. Runs on your device — nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored.
Drop PDFs here or click to select
Support for multiple files • Up to 50MB each
Extract Text from PDF pulls the words out of a document as plain text you can copy, edit, or paste elsewhere — quoting a clause from a contract, repurposing a report's paragraphs into a new document, or feeding the content into another tool without retyping it.
It reads the PDF's text layer — the actual characters stored in the file — and hands them back as text, so a digitally created PDF (exported from a word processor, browser, or design app) extracts cleanly. Everything runs in your browser; the document isn't uploaded to pull its text.
One limitation to know up front: a scanned or photographed PDF is really an image of a page, with no text layer to read. Extraction returns little or nothing for those. To get words out of a scan, run it through OCR first with the image-to-text tool, which recognizes characters in a picture.
- Upload the PDF you want text from.
- Let the tool read its text layer.
- Review the extracted text.
- Copy or download it.