PDF to Text Converter
Extract searchable text from any PDF — one file per PDF or split by page. Preview before download.
Best for copying text content from a PDF into a script, database, or document pipeline.
▸▾When does this work best?
This tool extracts embedded text from the PDF. If your PDF is a scanned document (an image of a page rather than a text document), the output will be empty or minimal. For scanned PDFs, use PDF to Word instead — it includes OCR.
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Accepts .PDF · Up to 1,000 files
How it works
Drop your files
Drag and drop, click to browse, or paste from clipboard. Up to 1,000 files at once.
Choose settings
Adjust quality, format, and other options to match your needs.
Click Convert
Everything runs in your browser via WebAssembly. PDF to Text Converter happens locally — no server involved.
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Download files individually or grab all at once as a ZIP.
Frequently asked questions
Never. Text extraction runs entirely in your browser via WebAssembly. Your PDFs never leave your device.
The PDF is likely a scan — an image of a page with no embedded text layer. This tool only extracts text that is already encoded in the PDF structure. For scanned documents, use PDF to Word instead: it runs OCR automatically to recognise text from the image.
Yes, for standard digital PDFs. MuPDF extracts text in the order it appears in the file, which matches reading order for most word-processor exports. Complex multi-column layouts — newspapers, academic papers — may have text extracted in an unexpected order.
PDF to Text outputs a plain .txt file — no formatting, no images, just the words. It is ideal for feeding text into scripts or databases. PDF to Word outputs a .docx that attempts to preserve headings, bold, italics, and tables. Use PDF to Text for data pipelines; use PDF to Word when document structure matters.
Yes. The output is UTF-8 encoded, so accented characters, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, mathematical symbols, and most Unicode text are preserved exactly — as long as those characters are embedded as text in the PDF, not as images.
Yes. Use the "From page" and "To page" options. Set both to the same number to extract a single page. Leave "To page" at 9999 to extract from your start page to the end of the document.