How to extract text from a PDF
- Upload the PDF.
- Look through the text by page, or view all pages at once.
- Copy it, or download as a .TXT file.
Get the text out cleanly
Copying text out of a PDF by hand is painful. Lines break in odd places and sometimes it won't select at all. Upload it here and you get all the text, page by page, ready to copy or save as a .txt file.
There's a search box to find a word across the whole document, and a running word and character count.
Frequently asked questions
It says no text was found
The PDF is probably a scan, basically a photo of a page. There's no text in it to pull out. You'd need an OCR tool for that, and this one doesn't do OCR.
Why is the formatting gone?
You get the plain text only. Columns, tables and bold don't come across, so some cleanup may be needed for complex layouts.