Extract text from a PDF

Pull the text layer out; copy or download it.

No uploads. No accounts. Runs in your browser.

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About this tool

Extracts the embedded text layer from a PDF, read and copy it right on this page, or download the whole thing as a .txt file. Page breaks are kept as blank lines.

One caveat: scanned PDFs are photographs of text with no text layer, so they come back empty, that requires OCR, which would mean either a heavyweight download or a server, and Convertze refuses to add a server.

How it works

  1. Drop your file(s), they are read locally, never uploaded.
  2. Set the options you need and run the tool.
  3. Download the finished PDF, images or text.

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