PDF to Text
Free online tool to extract text from any PDF file
Flexible page selection, works with digital documents
Free online tool to extract
text from any PDF file
Flexible page selection, digital docs
Drop your PDF file here
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Max file size: 100MB
Extract text from PDF
Page range selection
Free, no sign-up
Accurate extraction
Pulls clean, structured text while preserving paragraphs and line breaks.
Privacy by default
Encrypted in transit and handled securely.
Done in seconds
Drop a file in and get text before the kettle boils.
Page selection
Extract text from all pages or choose specific pages to process.
Any device, any OS
Works on any device - no installs, no plugins.
100% free
No limits, no watermarks, completely free to use forever.
How it works
1
Upload your PDF by dragging it in or choosing from your device.
2
Select pages to extract or choose all pages.
3
Click Extract and we pull the text in the cloud.
4
Copy or download the extracted text as a TXT file.
PDF to Text FAQs
This tool is designed for digital PDFs with selectable text. For scanned documents, use our PDF OCR tool to recognize and extract the text.
Yes, paragraphs and line breaks are preserved. Complex layouts like multi-column pages or tables may need some manual cleanup afterward.
Yes. Extract text from all pages or specify a page range like 1-5, 8, 11-13 to get only the pages you need.
Yes. Upload multiple PDFs and extract text from each one individually in a single batch.
English, Bengali, Hindi, Arabic, and virtually any language with digital text in the PDF. The tool recognizes text in any language the PDF was created with.
Plain text (.txt) format. No formatting is included, just the raw text content from your PDF, ready to copy or edit.
Your files are encrypted in transit and handled securely. We never store your documents permanently.
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