Extract Text from PDF

Get all the selectable text out of your PDF into a plain text file. Free and unlimited.

How to extract text from pdf

  1. Add your PDF.
  2. Click Extract text.
  3. A .txt file with all the text downloads.

Does it work on scanned PDFs?

Only if the PDF has a real text layer. Image-only scans have no text to copy — use the OCR tool for those.