Extract Text from PDF

Extract all text content from a PDF document.

📄 Drop a PDF file here or click to browse Single PDF file

Extracting Text from PDFs

This tool reads the text layer from a PDF document and presents it as plain, copyable text. It works with digitally created PDFs (from Word, LaTeX, web pages, etc.) that contain embedded text. Scanned documents that are essentially images will not yield text unless they have been processed with OCR beforehand.

The extraction is performed locally in your browser using the pdf.js library developed by Mozilla. Your document is never sent to a server. The output includes page separators so you can identify where each page begins, and a word count to quickly gauge the document's length.

Verify Your Privacy

You can confirm that your files never leave your device. Open your browser's Developer Tools (F12 or Cmd+Option+I on Mac), go to the Network tab, and clear the log. Then drop a PDF and wait for the text to appear. You will see no outgoing requests to any server — all processing happens in JavaScript on your own machine.