Processed in browser
What “processed in browser” means
- Your file is never sent to a server.
- The work happens only in your browser's memory.
- Refreshing or closing the page discards the work in progress.
- Files you download stay on your device.
- Requests for ads and site resources are separate from your file — they never carry it.
PDF to Text — Get the Words Out
Selecting text in a PDF and copying it often produces broken lines and scrambled order. This tool reads the text layer stored in the document and writes it out page by page as a plain text file.
Extraction happens entirely in your browser. Neither the document nor the extracted text is transmitted.
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This is not optical character recognition. A scanned document contains pictures of text and has nothing to extract. Rather than quietly handing you an empty file, we tell you when a document looks like a scan.
How to use
- 1
Choose your PDF
Pick the document. It is opened only inside your browser.
- 2
Choose how to separate
Add a marker line per page, separate with blank lines, or run everything together. Decide whether to keep the PDF's line breaks or join wrapped lines into paragraphs.
- 3
Check and download
Review the preview, then save the .txt file. It's written as UTF-8, so accented and non-Latin characters survive.
Key features
Page separators
A “--- Page 3 ---” marker lets you trace a sentence back to where it came from.
Line-break handling
Keep the PDF's lines exactly, or merge wrapped lines back into paragraphs. Languages that wrap mid-word are handled without inserting stray spaces.
UTF-8 output
Opens correctly in Notepad, VS Code, or a spreadsheet without mangled characters.
Scan detection
If there's far too little text for the page count, the result screen says the document looks scanned.
Limits of this tool
- This is not OCR. Scanned image-only PDFs produce nothing.
- Tables come out as plain lines. Use PDF → Excel when the table structure matters.
- Two-column layouts can interleave the columns.
- PDFs whose fonts lack Unicode mappings produce garbled characters — copying from a viewer breaks the same way.
When to use it
Search and quote
Pull a report's body text out so you can search it and quote from it.
Prepare a translation
Get clean text to paste into a translation tool.
Feed another tool
Extract values from documents that repeat a fixed structure.
How are your files handled?
Extraction happens entirely in your browser. Neither the document nor the extracted text is transmitted.
Selected files open only in your browser's memory, and results are handed straight to your device when you save. Close the tab and any remaining data is gone with it. See the Privacy Policy and File Retention Policy for details.