PDF to Text
Extract clean, selectable text from a PDF for quick copying, pasting and editing.
About the PDF to Text
PDF to Text pulls out the textual content of a PDF so you can paste it into Word, an email or any text editor. Especially handy when you need to quote a paragraph from a long report or re-type nothing.
How to use
- Upload the PDF that contains the text you need.
- Wait for the tool to parse each page (just a few seconds for most documents).
- Copy the plain-text output or download it as a
.txtfile.
Benefits & key features
- Saves hours compared to manual transcription.
- Retains paragraph breaks where the PDF exposed them in its structure.
- Works best for text-based PDFs; OCR of scanned PDFs would require specialised software.
- Pairs perfectly with Word Counter to measure extracted content.
Pro tip
If your PDF is a scanned image (no selectable text) this tool will return very little. Use an OCR service first, then come back to extract the recognised text.