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Extract text from a PDF
Pull all readable text out of a PDF's text layer.
Pulls out the text a PDF actually stores, page by page, so you can paste it somewhere or search it — without sending a document you may not be allowed to share to anyone's server.
How Extract text from a PDF works
- Drop your file into the tool, or click to browse.
- Everything runs in your browser — no upload, no server, no waiting.
- Download your result straight to your device.
Good to know: This reads the PDF's text layer. A scanned or photographed page holds pixels, not text, so nothing comes out of it — there is no OCR here. If you can select the words in a PDF reader, this will get them; if you cannot, it will not.
Common questions
Why did my scanned PDF come out empty?
Because a scan is an image of words, not words. Without OCR there is no text layer to read. The quick test: try selecting text in any PDF viewer — if the selection does not catch, the page has no text to extract.
What happens to columns and tables?
Text comes out in the order the PDF stores it, which matches reading order for ordinary documents. Multi-column layouts and complex tables can interleave, because that ordering is a property of the file rather than something we can infer reliably.