Extract Text
Extract selectable text from any PDF.
Drop a PDF here
or use the button below
About this tool
Pull all selectable text out of a PDF into plain text you can copy or download. Perfect for quoting, repurposing or searching document content — processed entirely in your browser.
Key Features
- Full-document text extraction
- Copy to clipboard
- Download as .txt
- No upload — fully private
How to Use
- Drop or select a PDF.
- Click Extract text.
- Copy or download the result.
Benefits
- Reuse document content
- Search & quote easily
- Feed text into other tools
Frequently Asked Questions
It extracts embedded (selectable) text. Scanned image-only PDFs contain no text layer — use the OCR PDF / Image to Text tool instead, which reads pixels rather than a text layer.
No — extraction runs locally with pdf.js.