How It Works
- Choose a PDF.
- Choose all pages or a page range and extract text.
- Edit, copy or download the text as TXT.
About PDF to Text
Selectable text is extracted on your device. Scans require OCR; TXT does not preserve columns or tables.
Use this for quotations, spell-checking or saving a plain-text copy of a document. Enter a range such as 1-3, 5 to extract only the pages you need.
Edit the result in this window, copy it or download a UTF-8 TXT file. Pages without a text layer are reported separately; use OCR to recognize those pages.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this recognize scanned pages?
No. Use OCR for scanned books and pages that contain only images.
Is my file uploaded?
No. Extraction runs on your device using pdf.js.
Will tables keep their layout?
TXT is plain text. Reading order depends on the PDF structure; review columns and tables. The limit is 500 pages and 5 million characters.