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PDF to Text

Pull all the text out of a PDF and download it as a .txt file.

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Need to copy a paragraph, feed a document into another tool, or just read the words without the formatting getting in the way? This pulls the raw text out of every page of your PDF.

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How it works

  1. 1Upload the PDF you want to extract text from.
  2. 2Wait a moment while the text is pulled from every page.
  3. 3Preview the text in the box below.
  4. 4Click "Download .txt" to save it to your device.

Frequently asked questions

Does this work on scanned PDFs?

It extracts text that already exists in the PDF. Scanned documents that are just images won't have selectable text to extract.

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