Extract Text from PDF
Get clean plain text out of any PDF.
Pull all the text from a PDF as a .txt file – perfect for indexing, feeding into analytics, or just reading without formatting distractions. OCR runs automatically for scans.
How it works
Four calm steps.
- 01
Drop your file
Drag your PDF onto the upload card, or click to pick it from your device. You can also paste a link to a file hosted online.
- 02
Pick encoding and layout
UTF-8 (recommended), plain flow or paragraph-preserving. For scans, choose the language for OCR.
- 03
Let us do the work
Our engine extracts text page by page, running OCR when needed in a few seconds. Nothing leaves the encrypted pipeline while it runs.
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Download the result
Save the plain-text file to your device, share a temporary link, or send it straight to Google Drive or Dropbox. Files are wiped from our servers within one hour.
Why Extract Text from PDF
Built to be the last extract text from pdf tool you try.
Ligatures, soft hyphens and CID fonts are normalised into real Unicode characters.
The output is clean UTF-8 text – perfect input for a language model or a search index.
Uploads travel over TLS, files are encrypted at rest, and every trace is deleted within 60 minutes. We do not read, index, or train on your documents.
The heavy lifting happens on our servers, so a Chromebook, an old laptop, or a phone all finish the job in about the same time.
FAQ
Questions people ask.
Optionally. Default is single-column flow; 'preserve layout' keeps approximate column and paragraph structure.
Yes – tick 'split by page' to get a ZIP of numbered TXT files.
Yes. The free tier covers everyday use – you can extract text from several files per hour without an account. Pro unlocks larger uploads and batch jobs.
They live in an encrypted staging area for at most one hour, then they are permanently deleted. Nobody on our team can browse them.
No. Everything runs in your browser against our servers – Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android are all supported.
Yes. Great for feeding LLMs is free on the no-signup tier with no watermark added to your files. A paid plan only lifts batch and file-size limits for heavy users.
No. Great for feeding LLMs runs entirely in your browser - there is nothing to download and no account is required to get started.
Yes. Uploads travel over an encrypted connection, are processed in an isolated pipeline, and are permanently deleted from our servers within 60 minutes. We never read, index or train on your documents.
On the free tier Great for feeding LLMs accepts files up to 100 MB. Larger documents are supported on the paid plan, or you can split a big file first.
Yes - Great for feeding LLMs is fully responsive and works in Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android.
Great for feeding LLMs keeps text, images and structure as close to the original PDF as the target format supports, so little manual clean-up is needed.