PDF to Text
Extract all the text from a PDF as plain text, keep the layout, or copy it in one click. Fast and free, works with long documents too.
Drop a PDF, or click to choose
Get all the text out of a PDF — for copying, editing or searching.
PDF, up to 25 MB
Ad space · responsive
How to use PDF to Text
- Drop a PDF.
- Choose reading order (for copying) or keep layout (for columns and tables).
- Copy the text or download it as a .txt file.
Privacy
Your file or request is processed on our server, then deleted as soon as the result is sent back. Nothing is kept or shared.
Questions
Why is the text empty?
Scanned PDFs are pictures of pages and have no text — run them through PDF OCR first.