Convert PDF to plain text
Extract the plain text of every page in a PDF into a single, clean .txt file with clear page-break markers.
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Extract the plain text of every page in a PDF into a single, clean .txt file with clear page-break markers.
Drop files here or click to browse
Upload one file
Accepted: PDF
Extract the readable text from every page of a PDF into a single .txt file, with a clear page-break marker between pages so you can still tell where each page started.
The text layer of the PDF is read page by page and saved as a .txt file, which is handy for pasting into an email, indexing documents or feeding text to another program.
Only PDFs that contain real text work this way. If the result is empty, the PDF is a scan; run OCR PDF on it instead.
No — this extracts existing selectable text; a scanned image-only PDF will come back mostly empty. Use OCR PDF first to add a text layer to a scan.
No, this is plain text extraction — layout, styling, and table structure are not preserved. Use PDF to Markdown or PDF to Word if you need structure kept.
Learn how to recognize a scanned PDF, choose conversion or OCR, and review text, tables and formatting before sharing an editable Word document.
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