PDF to Text Extractor
without uploading it.
Pull every line of text out of a PDF — copy it to the clipboard or save it as a .txt file, without uploading the document anywhere.
Drop a PDF, or click to browse
Drop a PDF or click to browse.
Click "Extract text".
Copy the text, or download it as a .txt file.
Why there's no upload step
Copying text page by page out of a PDF viewer is tedious and mangles line breaks. This reads the PDF's actual text layer with pdf.js — the same engine Firefox uses — and hands you the whole document as plain text in one click. Because it runs entirely in your browser, it's safe for contracts, statements, and anything else you'd rather not upload to a random website.
Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?+
No. Text extraction happens entirely in your browser.
Why did my PDF come back empty?+
It's probably a scan — pages stored as images have no text layer to extract. That requires OCR, which this tool deliberately doesn't do (real OCR in the browser is slow and error-prone).
Will formatting be preserved?+
You get the raw text with basic line structure. Columns, tables, and fonts don't survive — plain text has no way to represent them.
Is there a page limit?+
No fixed limit — long documents just take a little longer since everything runs on your device.