PDF to Text

When to use PDF to Text

You have a 30-page research report in PDF and need to paste a key paragraph into a Google Doc, or run the whole thing through a summarizer that only accepts plain text. PDF.js walks every page of the document on your own computer, pulling out the embedded character data in reading order without sending anything to a server. The result lands in a text box you can copy with one click, or download as a .txt file. This works on any digitally created PDF — Word exports, typeset reports, court filings — but not on scanned images of pages, which contain no extractable text layer. For those, you need an OCR pass first.

• Copy a contract clause into a Google Doc for redlining
• Feed a 50-page annual report into a text summarizer
• Extract a table of figures from a PDF for pasting into Excel

About this tool

What if you could search, copy, or reformat text that's locked inside a PDF? Upload any text-based PDF and this tool extracts every word from every page, preserving reading order. Copy the result to your clipboard or download it as a plain .txt file. Useful for pulling quotes from a research paper, feeding report content into another tool, or grabbing data from a PDF that won't let you select text. Works on digital PDFs — scanned documents need OCR first. Extraction is handled locally so confidential documents stay private.