Extract text from PDF

Pulls the selectable text out of a PDF — preview it, copy it, or download it as a .txt file. Scanned documents have no text layer; those need the desktop app's OCR.

This tool runs entirely in your browser — nothing you type or open here is ever uploaded. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it still works.

Drop files here or click to choose

One PDF file

up to 300 MB

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The PDF Toolbox desktop app compresses, redacts with verified removal, OCRs scans, repairs damaged files, converts to PDF/A and handles 500-page documents — all offline, on your machine, with the same promise: nothing ever leaves it. See everything it does →

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