PDF to Text

Choose a PDF to get its text as a plain .txt file.

PDF file

PDF up to 50 MB · deleted after you download the result

Text order

From page

To page

Mark page breaks

Reading order or layout?

Reading order joins the text as you would read it: best for pasting into an email, a document or an AI tool.
Keep the page layout keeps columns and spacing with spaces, so tables and forms stay lined up in a monospaced font.

The text is saved in UTF-8, so Urdu, Arabic and accented letters come through. Very old PDFs with unusual font encodings can produce garbled characters. If that happens, OCR PDF usually helps.

No text found?

A scanned PDF is just pictures of pages, with no text inside. Run it through OCR PDF first to add a text layer, then extract the text here, or use Image to Text for a single page.

For editable formatting (headings, bold, tables), use PDF to Word instead. To find what changed between two versions of a document, use Compare PDF.

Privacy

Your file is processed on our server only to make your result, and is deleted when you download it or automatically after about an hour. It is never shared or used for anything else.

Free to useNo software to install — works in any modern browser.

No signup neededOpen the tool and start straight away.

Files deleted automaticallyUsed only to make your result. The result is deleted when you download it, or automatically after about an hour.

Works on mobileSame tool on your phone, tablet or desktop.

How it works

Upload — select or drag & drop your file.
Process — choose any options and start; most files take a few seconds, large files, OCR and video can take a minute or two.
Download — save the result; it is deleted from the server once downloaded (or after about an hour).

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