How to Extract Text from PDF Documents

1Upload PDF Document
Drop your document into the text extraction workspace.
2Choose Text Mode
Select Flow Text for continuous reading or Layout Mode to preserve column spacing.
3Copy or Export TXT
Copy text to clipboard or download as a .txt file.

Flow Text Mode: Extracts text in natural continuous reading order.
Layout Preserved Mode: Maintains horizontal indentation, columns, and tabular alignments.
Page Break Markers: Inserts visual delimiters between pages.

Layout Spacing Retention
Preserves original column alignments and line breaks accurately.
One-Click Copy & Export
Instantly copy all text or save as a structured plain text file.
Unicode & Multi-Language
Extracts international character sets, accents, and symbols.
Fast Client-Side Engine
Extracts thousands of pages in milliseconds directly on your device.

Coordinate Layout mode reads the 2D positional bounding boxes (`x, y` glyph coordinates) of each word and inserts proportional ASCII whitespace to maintain table alignment and column separation.

PDF to Text extracts digital vector font strings embedded in native PDFs. If your PDF contains scanned photos of paper pages without embedded font glyphs, use our Scanned PDF to Text (OCR) tool.

PDF to Text

Convert PDF content into clean, editable plain text in seconds.

Convert PDF to text locally

Drag and drop your PDF files here to perform fully local layout-aware text extraction.

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