PDF to Text
Extract text from PDF files online. Client-side — files never leave your browser.
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Your file is never uploaded — processed entirely in browser
About PDF to Text
Upload any PDF and extract all text content page by page. Navigate between pages with a sidebar, copy the text from individual pages or the entire document, and download as a plain .txt file. Powered by Mozilla's PDF.js library and runs entirely in your browser — PDF files are never uploaded to any server. Works for text-based PDFs; scanned PDFs (images) require OCR which this tool does not perform.
All processing happens entirely in your browser using modern web APIs. Nothing is uploaded to our servers — your data stays local and private. Free to use forever, with a Pro plan for power users who want an ad-free experience and API access.
Common use cases
- Extracting text from PDF reports or papers for editing or searching
- Converting PDF documentation to plain text for accessibility or processing
- Pulling text content out of a PDF to paste into a document or email
- Checking the text content of a PDF before publishing
- Extracting data from PDF exports from accounting or CRM systems
How it works
Uses Mozilla PDF.js (the same engine that powers Firefox's built-in PDF viewer). After the file is loaded via FileReader as an ArrayBuffer, PDF.js parses the PDF binary format and extracts text items from each page's content stream. Text items are joined with spaces, preserving line breaks where the PDF includes them. The file never leaves your browser — PDF.js runs entirely client-side.