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EXTRACT ALL TEXT FROM A PDF AS A PLAIN .TXT FILE

PDF to Text

Pull the raw text content out of a PDF and download it as a plain text file — useful for copying, searching, or feeding into other tools.

Drag & drop a PDF, or browse
PDF files up to 100MB

Frequently asked questions

This extracts text that's already embedded in the PDF — scanned/image-only PDFs have no embedded text, so you'll get an empty or near-empty result. Use our Image to Text (OCR) tool for scanned documents instead.

No — this pulls out raw text only, without fonts, layout, or images. Use PDF to Word or PDF to HTML if you need to preserve more structure.

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