PDF to Text Converter Free
Extract all text content from your PDF files and get clean, plain text output. Perfect for copying content, data extraction, or converting documents to editable text.
Drag & drop your PDF file here or Choose File
Maximum file size: 50MB
How to Extract Text from PDF
- Upload your PDF — Select the PDF file to extract text from.
- Click Extract — Press the button to extract all text content.
- Download text — Get your plain text file or copy the content.
Frequently Asked Questions
Scanned PDFs contain images rather than text. Basic OCR may extract some content, but results vary. For best results, use PDFs with selectable text.
Plain text does not support formatting. You get the raw text content without bold, italic, or font styles. For formatted output, use our PDF to Word converter.
Text is output in UTF-8 encoding, which supports all languages and special characters found in your PDF document.
