Extract Text from PDF - Online Tool

This tool works on text-based (digital) PDFs. For scanned PDFs or image-based PDFs, use our OCR Scanner tool which reads text from images.

Plain text is extracted with paragraph breaks. Complex layouts like tables, columns, and headers are simplified to linear text.

Yes, drop up to 10 PDFs at once. Each generates a separate .txt file.

Yes, 100% local. Your PDF files never leave your device. Text extraction runs via pdf-lib in the browser.

Up to 50MB per PDF file. Most text-based PDFs are well under this limit.

No, you need to unlock the PDF first using our Unlock PDF tool, then extract the text.

Currently the entire PDF is extracted. You can trim the output text file afterward or split the PDF first.

Yes, all Unicode text is extracted regardless of language, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and other scripts.

Plain text (.txt) file with UTF-8 encoding. You can open it in any text editor, Word, or Google Docs.

Copy-paste from PDFs often breaks formatting, adds line breaks mid-sentence, and misses text in complex layouts. This tool extracts cleanly across all pages at once.