PDF to Text
Extract the selectable text from a PDF.
About the PDF to Text
The PDF to Text tool extracts the selectable text from a PDF so you can copy it or download it as a plain .txt file, all within your browser. It is the quick way to get the words out of a document without retyping them.
Frequently asked questions
If the PDF is a scan or photo of a page, the text is really an image and cannot be selected. Use the Image to Text OCR tool for scanned documents, which reads text from the picture itself.
Plain-text extraction keeps the words but not the layout, fonts or images. Expect clean text rather than a faithful copy of the page design.