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PDF → Text

Export all text to TXT

How it works:

  1. 1Upload a PDF file
  2. 2Select pages to extract (optional)
  3. 3Click "Extract Text" to download the .txt

About this tool

Strip every word out of a PDF and hand it back as a clean, plain text file with no formatting codes, stray symbols, or layout clutter in the way. Content is gathered from all pages in the correct reading order, so the flow of the document is preserved even once the styling is gone, leaving you with something tidy and easy to scan. This is handy when you want to copy passages, run text analysis, prepare material for downstream processing, or feed PDF content into another application. Privacy is built in by design: the extraction is performed locally within your browser, so the document never leaves your computer or touches an external server. As soon as the text is gathered, the resulting file can be saved to your device immediately. Researchers mining documents for analysis, writers lifting copy out for editing, and anyone who simply needs the raw words from a PDF without the surrounding formatting will get exactly what they're after.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The tool sorts text by vertical and horizontal position so lines come out top to bottom and left to right, matching how you'd read the page. The result is a clean .txt file without formatting codes or stray characters.
You can specify a page range like 2-6 or a list such as 1,4,9 to pull text from only those pages. There's also an option to label each page with its number in the output if you want clear page markers.
Scanned PDFs are images of text, and this extractor reads embedded text rather than running OCR, so it can't recognize words inside a picture. It shines on digital PDFs that already hold real, selectable text content.
It's free with no signup, and nothing is uploaded. The extraction happens right in your browser on your own device, so even confidential research or private documents never travel to any server.
The clean .txt output is ideal for text analysis, search indexing, copying content into other apps, or feeding into scripts and other processing tools. Because it's plain UTF-8 text, it works with virtually any editor or program.

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