Extract PDF text
Extract selectable PDF text in page order.
Local processing · Nothing is uploaded · 10 MB per file / 25 MB total
Input & settings
No files selected
Result
How to use
Choose the source file, review settings, process, then inspect and download the result.
Limits and behavior
Scanned pages without a text layer yield no text. Reading order follows PDF text items and may differ from visual columns. Local processing. Maximum 10 MB per file, 25 MB total and 100 PDF pages. Encrypted PDFs require the separate known-password decryption tool. Digitally signed input may lose signature validity after any modification; preserve your original. Unsupported or malformed files produce an error. Cancellation stops active PDF renders and discards stale results; a synchronous library step finishes before the browser can handle cancellation.
Extract text from a PDF online
Copy readable text from a PDF containing selectable text, in page order. This PDF-to-text extraction tool helps when you need text for searching, editing or quoting instead of the original page layout.
Can this extract text from a scanned PDF?
Not reliably. Image-only scans generally require optical character recognition (OCR); this tool extracts existing selectable text rather than claiming to recognize characters in images.