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Choose one PDF
Select a valid PDF up to 50 MB and 1,000 pages.
PDF to Text
Extract selectable text from all pages or a range, review it in a read-only preview and download a UTF-8 text file.
Your PDF and password stay in this browser.
How to convert PDF to text
A local workflow from source PDF to downloadable result.
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Extract the text layer
Choose pages and whether TXT should keep standard page separators.
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Download the result
Save the finished PDF or ZIP after local processing.
Private browser processing
The document is processed on your device. No file, password or page selection is sent to a server.
What this tool does
Extract the text layer without uploading the document
Pages are processed sequentially so extraction can be cancelled. Standard form-feed characters preserve page boundaries in the TXT file.
- Extract all pages or a custom range.
- Preview and copy the result before downloading.
- Save UTF-8 TXT with BOM and optional page separators.
Frequently asked questions
No. It reads the existing PDF text layer and cannot recognize text inside scanned images.
The PDF may be a scan or use text encoded in a way PDF.js cannot expose as a normal text layer.
Not always. TXT has no page layout, so complex reading order and formatting can differ.
By default, pages are separated with the standard form-feed character U+000C.
Yes, after you enter the password. The password is held only in memory and the source PDF is not modified.