Reading order rebuilt
Text fragments are clustered into lines and sorted, so paragraphs read naturally instead of in PDF object order.
PDF to text · Free · No upload
Pull the plain text out of a PDF.
Get a clean UTF-8 text file with the reading order rebuilt page by page. Ideal for notes, search, translation or feeding text into other tools.
- Local processing
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01 · THE TOOL
Just the words.
Choose whether each page starts with a label, then extract.
Runs on this device
SELECTED TOOL
PDF to text
Drop a PDF to extract its text
or click to choose from your device
PDF only · Processed locally
Works with PDFs that contain text. Image-only scans require OCR.
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02 · STEP BY STEP
How to convert a PDF to text
Text-based PDFs work directly; scans need OCR first.
- 1+
Add the PDF
Drop a PDF that contains real text. Protected files must be unlocked first.
- 2
Choose page labels
Include page labels adds a "--- Page N ---" line before each page. Plain text only omits them.
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Download the TXT
Lines are grouped by position and joined top to bottom, left to right, in one UTF-8 file.
03 · WHAT YOU GET
Clean text you can reuse.
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Unicode kept intact
Accented characters, Chinese, Tamil and other scripts embedded as text come out as text.
Optional page markers
Keep page labels to reference pages, or drop them for clean prose.
UTF-8 output
Opens in any editor on any platform.
Why is the output empty or does it say no selectable text was found?
The PDF is image-only, typically a scan. Run it through OCR first.
Are tables preserved?
Cell text is extracted line by line; column alignment is not reproduced in plain text.
Does it handle multi-column layouts?
Lines are sorted by vertical position, so text from side-by-side columns can interleave. Convert to Word if you need a more structured result.
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