Sometimes all you need from a PDF is the words inside it — not the formatting, not the layout, just plain text you can search, paste, or feed into another tool. This converter reads every page's text content directly in your browser using pdf.js and groups it back into readable lines, then hands you a plain .txt file with page breaks marked, all without uploading the original document anywhere.
How to use the pdf to text tool
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Upload your PDF
Drop in the file you want to extract text from.
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Convert
Click Convert to Text. Every page's text is pulled out in reading order.
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Download
A .txt file downloads with each page's text separated by a page-break marker.
Common use cases
Pull a quote out of a report
Grab text from a PDF without retyping it by hand.
Feed a document into another tool
Get plain text ready to paste into a word processor, notes app, or AI tool.
Search across many PDFs
Convert a batch of PDFs to text so they're easy to grep or full-text search.
Frequently asked questions
Only if the PDF already has a selectable text layer (e.g. from OCR). Purely image-based scans have no extractable text.