PDF Text Extractor

Copy all selectable text out of a PDF, page by page.

Runs in your browser
Choose a PDFor drag and drop here Files stay on your device

How to use PDF Text Extractor

1

Choose a PDF.

2

Review text page by page.

3

Copy it or download as a .txt file.

Related workflows

PDF to Clean Text

PDF → Clean .txt

Copy text out of a PDF without broken lines.

Extract textClean text

Frequently asked questions

Why is my scanned PDF empty?

Scanned PDFs are pictures of pages and have no text layer. Text extraction needs a digitally created PDF.

About this tool

Extract the text layer from a PDF to edit, quote or search it. Works for digital PDFs; scanned images contain no text layer.

PDF Text Extractor runs entirely in your web browser. Your documents are processed on your own device and are never uploaded to our servers, which makes it safe for personal and business files.