About this tool
Copying text out of a PDF page by page is tedious and often produces broken lines. This tool extracts the whole document in one go, keeps the reading order and paragraph breaks as well as the PDF allows, and gives you the text on screen to copy plus a .txt file to download.
It works on PDFs that contain real text, which is most documents produced by software. Scanned PDFs are pictures of pages; for those, convert the pages to images and use Image to Text, which recognizes the letters optically.
How to use it
- Drop your PDF files into the box above, or click to browse. Nothing is uploaded.
- Click the button and wait a moment.
- Download the results individually or all at once as a ZIP.
Questions
Why did I get no text?
The PDF is a scan or was made from images. Use PDF to PNG followed by Image to Text (OCR).
Is formatting kept?
Plain text only: paragraphs and line breaks, no fonts, tables, or images.
Can I convert PDF to Word?
Not here; that needs layout reconstruction. Extracting the text and pasting it into Word is the practical route for most documents.
Is it free, are files uploaded, which browsers work: the general questions are answered once for the whole site.