Extract Text from PDF

The Extract Text from PDF tool reads the selectable text out of a document and hands it back as a clean, plain-text file you can paste, search, or feed into another tool.

Drop in a PDF, choose how you want line breaks handled, and download a .txt of the whole thing in one step.

It is the fastest way to lift a quote out of a report, grab the body of a contract for a summary, or turn a wall of formatted PDF into something a script or spreadsheet can actually read.

Two modes shape the output: "Preserve lines" keeps the original line breaks the PDF reports, which is handy for poetry, code, or tables; "Tidy paragraphs" trims each line and collapses the stray blank lines that PDFs love to scatter, giving you readable prose.

You can also add a "Page N" divider before each page so long documents stay easy to navigate.

A live preview lets you check the result before you save.

Everything runs locally with pdf.js inside your browser, so the file never touches a server — which matters for anything confidential — and it keeps working offline once loaded.

One honest caveat: this reads text that is actually embedded in the PDF.

Scanned documents that are really just images contain no selectable text, so there is nothing to extract; the tool will tell you when that is the case rather than returning gibberish.