PDF to Text
Extract the text content from a PDF, page by page.
Runs in your browser using pdf.js text extraction — nothing is uploaded
How to use it
- Choose a PDF. Text is extracted page by page.
- Copy the result, or download it as a .txt file.
Questions
Why did a page come back empty?
Because it has no text to extract. A scanned or photographed page is an image, and the letters in it are pixels, not characters. Turning those into text needs optical character recognition, which this tool does not do — so it says the page has no extractable text rather than returning a blank and letting you assume it failed.
Why is the reading order sometimes odd?
A PDF stores pieces of text at positions on a page, not as a flowing document. Columns, sidebars and tables have no inherent order, so the extraction follows the order the file itself uses. For ordinary single-column pages this matches what you see; for complex layouts it may not.
Does it keep formatting?
No. The output is plain text: line breaks and paragraph spacing are preserved as best they can be, but fonts, sizes, tables and columns are not.