How to use PDF to text
- Choose or drop the PDF.
- Press Extract text.
- Copy the text or download it as a .txt file.
Questions
Why did I get no text?
The PDF is probably a scan: pages are photos of text, not text itself. That needs OCR (optical character recognition), which this tool doesn't do.
Is formatting kept?
Line breaks are kept, but fonts, columns and tables become plain text.
Is my PDF uploaded to a server?
No. The tool runs in your browser and works on your PDF directly on your device. Nothing is sent to us or anyone else, which is why it also keeps working if your connection drops after the page loads.
Last updated 13 November 2026.