PDF Text Extractor
Selecting text inside a PDF is fiddly on a phone. Extract everything at once into plain text, then copy exactly what you need — clean and searchable.
🔒 Uploaded for processing only — deleted automatically within 1 hour
Choose PDF
Up to 50 MB · PDF · we start right away
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Choose a file — the result appears right here. Nothing else to press.
Working…
How it works
- Upload a PDF.
- We pull out the text layer.
- Preview it on screen and download the .txt.
Good to know
FormatsPDF in — TXT out
- Quoting from a report
- Feeding text into another tool
- Searching long documents
Questions
What about scanned PDFs?
Scans have no text layer; we tell you honestly. OCR tools for scans are on our roadmap.
Can I keep the original line breaks?
Yes, choose 'keep spacing' to preserve the visual layout.
Is my document stored?
No, it is deleted within one hour.
🔒 Uploaded for extraction only, auto-deleted within 1 hour. Contents are never used for analytics.
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