Extract text from a PDF, free
Pull the plain text out of any PDF in one click. Keep the original layout, or get a clean text stream ready for further processing.
Drop a PDF here, or browse
How to extract text
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Upload the PDF.
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Choose whether to preserve the visual layout.
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Download the extracted text.
Why use this tool
- Unicode-safe output for every language.
- Run OCR first to extract text from scans too.
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