Extract Text from PDF — Free PDF to Text Tool
Pull all the selectable text out of a PDF into a clean text file.
About this tool
When you extract text from PDF files, you free the words trapped inside documents — for quoting in an article, feeding into a spreadsheet, translating, or archiving as plain text. This free tool reads every page and saves the text as a tidy .txt file with page markers.
Extraction preserves the reading order of each page and labels every section (“===== Page 3 =====”), so you always know where a quote came from. It handles multi-page reports, ebooks, and research papers in seconds.
One honest note: this works on PDFs with real, selectable text. Scanned image-only PDFs contain no text layer to extract — the tool will tell you if it finds nothing, in which case you'd need OCR software first. As always, everything runs locally: your documents are never uploaded anywhere.
How to use
- Upload your PDF.
- Press “Extract Text”.
- Wait while each page is read.
- Download the .txt file with all extracted text.
Frequently asked questions
The tool says no text was found. Why?
Your PDF is likely scanned images with no text layer. Text extraction needs selectable text; scanned pages need OCR software first.
Will formatting like bold and tables be kept?
Plain text is extracted without formatting. Tables come out as spaced-out text, which usually needs light cleanup.
Can I extract text from specific pages?
The tool extracts all pages. To get specific pages, split them out first with the Split PDF tool.
Does it work on Hindi or other languages?
Yes — any language with embedded selectable text extracts the same way.
Is there a size limit?
Files up to 200 MB are accepted.
Is it free and private?
Yes. Free, no signup, and extraction happens entirely on your device.