PDF to Text extracts readable content from PDF files into clean, editable plain text and structured Markdown. It identifies headings, bullet lists, and paragraphs based on typography and geometry.
Everything runs in your browser with zero server uploads, keeping your documents 100% confidential.
How to use PDF to Text
- 1Select or drop your PDF document.
- 2Choose formatting options (detect headings, lists, tables).
- 3Click Extract Text from PDF.
- 4Preview the extracted text on screen, copy to clipboard, or download.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I extract text from scanned PDFs?
- For scanned paper documents or photocopies with no digital text layer, use our OCR PDF tool which recognizes scanned letters using WebAssembly Tesseract OCR.
- Does extracting text remove the PDF formatting?
- It converts visual layouts into clean, easy-to-read text paragraphs and Markdown headings so you can paste into Word, Google Docs, or text editors.