PDF to Text

No. The text is extracted entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Your PDF is read from your device into memory, parsed locally, and the text is shown for copying or download — the file never leaves your computer and is not sent to or stored on any server.

This tool extracts the real, selectable text layer in a PDF. Scanned documents and image-only PDFs have no text layer — they are pictures of pages — so nothing is returned. Reading those requires OCR (optical character recognition), which this tool does not perform.

It extracts plain text in reading order, inserting line breaks between visual lines and a blank line between pages. Columns, tables, headers, and exact spacing are not reconstructed — the result is clean text for copying or editing, not a visual copy of the page.

Yes. Turn on the page-marker option to insert a “— Page N —” header before each page's text, so you can tell where every page begins. With it off, pages are simply separated by a blank line. Either way you can copy the text or download it as a .txt file.