Pull every word out of a PDF into a plain .txt file — free, no signup.
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We extract the text
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Extract the text from a PDF into a plain .txt file you can search, paste or edit anywhere. Text comes out page by page in reading order - top to bottom, left to right - rather than in whatever order the PDF happened to store it.
Frequently asked questions
Your PDF is a scan: each page is a picture of text, not text itself, so there is nothing to extract directly. PDF to Word's OCR mode reads text from scanned pages.
No - a .txt file has no formatting, so you get the words only. If you need tables and layout kept, use PDF to Word instead.
Yes, as long as the PDF stores real text. The file is saved as UTF-8 so non-English characters open correctly. Some older Hindi PDFs made with legacy fonts store garbled text internally, and that garbling carries over.
Yes. Every tool on this site is free to use, with no signup, no account and no watermark on the result.
Your file is deleted from our server as soon as the tool finishes. Files that are uploaded but never completed are automatically removed within a few hours.