Skip to content

PDF to Text

Extract the text from your PDFs, with OCR for scanned pages.

How to convert a PDF to text

  1. 1. Add your PDFsChoose up to 20 PDFs, up to 100 pages each and 250 MB in total.
  2. 2. Pick pages and OCRChoose a page range and use OCR for pages without stored text.
  3. 3. DownloadSave a TXT file, or a ZIP for a batch.

Your files stay on your device. This tool does its work in your browser, and your files are never uploaded.

Common questions

What is lost in a text file?

TXT drops typography, images, tables and visual layout.

Does it read scanned pages?

Yes, with OCR in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese. Review the result, because accuracy varies.

Can I mark where pages begin?

Yes. Turn on Include Page N separators.

Related tools