PDF & Office

PDF to Text

Extract clean text from any PDF file.

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Accepts .pdf · One file at a time · Up to 100 MB each

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Extract plain-text content from any born-digital PDF — perfect when you need the words but not the layout. The output is a UTF-8 .txt file with one section per page, ready to paste into an email, feed to a Large Language Model, or index in a search system. No signup, no watermark, works on 100 MB files.

Common ways to use PDF to Text

Feed to ChatGPT / Claude

Paste the extracted text into an LLM prompt to summarise a whitepaper or draft follow-up questions.

Search a book

Grep the .txt for a keyword instead of scrolling a 400-page PDF.

Migrate to Markdown

Convert to text first, then wrap headings with ## for a clean Markdown draft.

Import to a database

Store contracts as plain text in your ERP for full-text search across thousands of documents.

Send to a translator

Translators prefer plain text — no layout distractions and no wrong-encoding gremlins.

PDF to Text — frequently asked questions

What about scanned PDFs?

Scanned/image PDFs have no text layer, so this tool returns nothing. Use OCR PDF to convert images to text first.

Are page numbers included?

Yes — every page starts with a "--- Page N ---" marker so you can navigate the output.

Is the character encoding safe?

Output is UTF-8 with a BOM stripped, which opens cleanly in Notepad, VS Code, Sublime and any modern text editor.

Are tables preserved?

Rows come out one per line, but column alignment is not guaranteed. For structured tables use PDF to Excel.

Can I copy the text out later?

Yes — download once, and the .txt is a normal editable file.

Pro tips for PDF to Text

Use PDF to Text to build a corpus for search-engine indexing (Algolia, Meilisearch, Elastic).
For scanned PDFs, run OCR PDF first — it uses Tesseract to recognise text before extraction.
Chain with our Grammar Corrector to get a spellcheck-clean version of the extracted text.

How to use PDF to Text

1. Upload — drop your .pdf file(s) into the box above or click to browse.
2. Configure — set any tool options (password, angle, watermark text) if applicable.
3. Convert — click Convert now. Processing usually takes 3–10 seconds.
4. Download — save the result to your device. Your file will auto-delete from our servers in 1 hour.

Why use PDF to Text?

Free & unlimited

No signup, no daily limit, no watermark on the output.

Private by default

HTTPS upload, auto-delete after 1 hour, zero tracking of your document contents.

Works everywhere

Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS — anywhere with a modern browser.