PDF to TXT Converter
Extract PDF text into plain TXT, then copy or download the .txt file.
TXT PDF TXT converter
Extract readable PDF text into plain text.
About this tool
Plain text is the universal solvent: it pastes cleanly into search tools, spreadsheets, scripts, translation tools, and anything else, with no formatting to fight. This converter pulls the raw text out of a PDF and hands it to you as one clean block; copy it straight to the clipboard or save it as a .txt file.
It's the right tool when the words are the goal and the layout is noise: getting a document's content into a search index, word-counting a report, feeding text to a script or rescuing content from a PDF whose reader copy-paste produces garbage line breaks.
How to use it
- Upload a text-based PDF.
- The text is extracted locally, page by page.
- Copy the output to your clipboard or download it as a .txt file.
Tips
- Extracted text keeps the PDF's line breaks, which fall where lines wrapped on the page. If you need flowing paragraphs, a quick find-and-replace of single line breaks in your editor fixes most of it.
- For anything structured; headings you want to keep as headings; the Markdown converter preserves more than plain TXT can.
FAQs
What's the difference between this and the Markdown converter?
Same extraction, different packaging: TXT is pure text with zero syntax, Markdown adds per-page headings and suits documentation workflows. For pasting into a spreadsheet or script, TXT is cleaner.
Why is the output empty or tiny for my PDF?
The PDF is a scan; its pages are pictures of text. Text extraction can only return text that's digitally present; scans need OCR instead.
Does extraction handle large PDFs?
Yes; extraction is fast since no rendering is involved. Hundreds of pages of text extract in seconds on a typical machine.
Is my PDF's content kept private?
Yes. Extraction runs inside your browser; neither the file nor its text is transmitted anywhere.