PDF to text

Extract the text of a PDF as a plain text file.

or drop PDF files here

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How to use PDF to text

Get the text of a PDF as a clean .txt file, line by line in reading order, ready to paste into an email, a document or a translation tool. Pages that are only scanned images can be read with OCR.

  1. Open a PDF.

  2. Review the extracted text and recognise scanned pages if needed.

  3. Copy the text or save it as a .txt file.

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How it works