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PDF to Text

Pull the text out of a PDF in one click. For scanned PDFs, you’ll be pointed to OCR.

Files are processed temporarily and are not stored permanently

How to use PDF to Text

  1. Choose a PDF.
  2. Optionally keep the original layout or pick a page range.
  3. Click “Extract text” and copy or download it.

Questions

Why is the result empty?

The PDF is probably a scan (an image of text). Use OCR PDF to recognise the text.

What does “Keep layout” do?

It preserves columns and spacing using spaces, which helps with tables and multi-column pages.

OCR PDFRecognise text in scanned PDFs — copy it, or make the PDF searchable. Word CounterCount words, characters, sentences and paragraphs, with reading time. Split PDFExtract pages or split a PDF into several files by page range. Find and ReplaceFind and replace text, with case, whole-word and regular-expression options.