PDF to TXT
Pull the embedded text out of a PDF into a plain .txt file — pick a page range, optionally keep page markers, then copy or download. Runs entirely in your browser; your file is never uploaded.
Input
Extraction runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Extracted text
Upload a PDF and press Extract text. The extracted text is built in your browser — copy or download it when you're ready.
Guides
PDF to TXT pulls the embedded text out of a PDF file and turns it into a plain .txt file, right in your browser. No signup, no upload — the file is read and its text extracted entirely on your device.
How to use it
- Upload a PDF file.
- Optionally enter a page range (like
1-3,5) — leave it blank to extract every page. - Toggle page markers on or off — on inserts a
--- Page N ---line before each page's text, useful for finding where something came from in a long document. - Press Extract text. Copy the result or download it as
extracted.txt.
Why extract PDF text in the browser?
Most online PDF-to-text tools upload your document to a server to convert it. This one does the whole job locally using pdf.js, the same rendering engine behind Firefox's built-in PDF viewer, so contracts, notes and anything else private never leave your device.
Does this work on scanned PDFs?
Only if the PDF already has a text layer (most scanners and "Print to PDF" tools produce one automatically). A pure image scan with no embedded text has nothing for this tool to extract — if a file comes back empty, try Scanned PDF Converter, which runs OCR to build a text layer first.
Will the layout (columns, tables, spacing) be preserved?
No — this extracts the underlying text in reading order, not a visual layout. Multi-column pages and tables come out as a stream of lines rather than a preserved grid; for those cases a dedicated PDF to Word or PDF to Excel conversion keeps more of the original structure.
Your file is processed entirely on your device and is never uploaded.