Extract all readable text from your PDF into a plain .txt file.
Extracting text from a PDF saves all the document's readable text as a plain .txt file. This is useful for searching, analysis, language processing, importing into other software, or simply copying content without needing to read a PDF viewer.
Journalists extract text from PDF reports for word-frequency analysis. Developers extract PDF invoice text for parsing and data entry. Researchers extract article text for plagiarism checking or sentiment analysis. Anyone who needs to work with the text content of a PDF document programmatically benefits.
Text is extracted page-by-page using PDF.js's text layer renderer, which preserves reading order as faithfully as the PDF encoding allows. The output is a UTF-8 plain text file. Processing happens entirely in your browser.
Your files never leave your browser. No account required, no server uploads — just fast, local processing. This is what it means to extract text from PDF without uploading.
Great for quickly importing raw data into scripts or excel, bypassing formatting issues.
No, for scanned images without text layer, please use our OCR tool instead.
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