Extract Text from PDF
Pull all readable text from a PDF.
Your files stay on your device. Processing happens in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Select a file
or drag and drop a PDF here
Pull all readable text from a PDF.
Your files stay on your device. Processing happens in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
or drag and drop a PDF here
Select or drop the file. If it needs an open password, enter it on the page. The tool looks for text that is already stored in the file, not for text locked inside a picture.
Click Extract Text. Readable text appears in the box on the page, in the order the PDF provides it. That order is usually fine for simple documents and can be jumbled on multi-column or heavily designed pages.
Use Copy Text to place the result on the clipboard, then paste it into a document or editor of your own. Nothing is stored with us, because the work never left your browser.
Text is read out of the PDF locally. The document is not uploaded, so you can pull wording from a contract, a statement or a paper without sending the file to a transcription service.
Many scanned PDFs are only pictures of pages. This tool cannot read those. Use OCR PDF instead.
No. Extraction runs in your browser with a local PDF engine.
No. You get the wording, not a perfect copy of columns, tables or typography.
Yes, if you have the open password. Enter it when the page prompts you.
There is no fixed cap, but a very long file may take longer and is limited by memory in the browser.
Extract Text copies text that is already in the file. OCR looks at a picture of the page and tries to recognise letters, which is slower and, in this tool, aimed at English.