Plain Text, Instantly
Sometimes you just need the words β to quote a passage, paste into an email, feed into another program, or search a long report. This tool reads the text layer of your PDF and writes it out as a simple .txt file, page by page, with no formatting to get in the way.
It works on any PDF that contains real, selectable text (the kind produced by Word, browsers or design tools). A scanned PDF is an image of text with no text layer, so run it through the OCR tool first to create one, then extract.
Read Locally, Nothing Uploaded
The extraction runs entirely in your browser with pdf.js. Your document is never sent to a server β the only network request is the one-time download of the open-source library.