How to use PDF to Text
- Choose or drag in your PDF.
- Choose whether to mark where each page starts.
- Press Extract text and download the .txt file.
Plain text for search, notes and AI tools
Sometimes you just need the words: to paste into an email, search with another program, feed to a translator or chatbot, or keep a lightweight copy. PDF to Text pulls out every line of text in reading order and saves it with UTF-8 encoding, so Arabic, Chinese and accented letters come out correctly.
Private by design
PDF to Text runs entirely in your browser. Your file is processed on your own device and is never uploaded to a server, there's no sign-up, and the result is ready to download as soon as it's done.
Questions
Does it work with scanned PDFs?
Scans contain pictures of text, not text. Use PDF OCR instead.
Will the layout be kept?
Lines and paragraphs are kept, and wide gaps between columns become spaces. Fonts and pictures are not included.
Which languages are supported?
Any language the PDF contains as real text.