PDF to Text Converter

No. This tool runs 100% in your browser — your file never leaves your device. The text is extracted locally, which also makes it fast and private.

Scanned PDFs are images of pages and have no text layer, so there is no text to extract. That requires OCR (optical character recognition) — use our OCR PDF tool to add a searchable text layer (Arabic, English, and French supported), then extract the text here. This tool works with PDFs that contain real, selectable text.

Upload your PDF, wait a moment while the text is extracted, then click "Copy to clipboard". You can also download everything as a .txt file, or select just a part of the preview and copy it.

You get plain text: paragraphs and line breaks are kept as well as possible, but fonts, colors, columns and tables are not preserved. For editable formatting, try our PDF to Word tool.

Yes — completely free, with no sign-up and no watermarks. Files up to 50MB are supported, and since everything runs in your browser there is nothing to wait for on a server.

Upload your PDF and the text is extracted automatically, page by page, directly in your browser. A live preview shows the result with character and word counts. Click "Copy to clipboard" or "Download as .txt" to save the text. Nothing is uploaded to a server.

Yes. After extraction, click "Copy to clipboard" to copy the full text at once, or select just a portion of the preview and copy it manually. You can also download everything as a .txt file named after your PDF.

Yes, Arabic text is extracted when the PDF contains a proper Unicode text layer, and the preview automatically switches to right-to-left display. Some Arabic PDFs store text in non-standard ways, so results can vary; scanned Arabic documents should go through the OCR tool first.

The "Insert page separators" option adds a "--- Page N ---" marker between pages in the output, so you can tell where each page starts. Untick the checkbox to get one continuous text without markers. The preview updates instantly either way.

You can load PDF files up to 50MB. There is no page limit — a progress bar shows extraction advancing page by page. Because processing is local, large files depend on your device's speed rather than on any server.

Most PDFs are done in a few seconds. Since everything runs in your browser, speed depends on your device and the document's size and complexity — there is no upload or download wait, and no server queue.

No. The tool only reads your PDF to extract its text; the file itself is never changed. The extracted text is saved as a separate .txt file, and your original PDF stays exactly as it was on your device.

Not directly. Encrypted PDFs cannot be opened without the password, so the tool will show a hint instead of a result. Remove the password first with the BlendPDF Unlock PDF tool, then extract the text.

Yes, the tool works on smartphones and tablets. Extraction runs locally in your mobile browser, and you can copy the text to your clipboard or download the .txt file just like on desktop.

Nothing is uploaded, so there is nothing to delete server-side. Your PDF is read locally in your browser's memory and released when you close or reload the page. The file and the extracted text stay entirely on your device.

Common causes are scanned PDFs without a text layer (use the OCR tool), password protection (unlock first), corrupted files, or the 50MB limit. Odd word order or spacing usually reflects how text is stored inside the PDF. Refresh the page and try again if extraction fails unexpectedly.