About this tool
Pull the text content out of a PDF that was created digitally (not scanned). This is useful for copying content into another document, feeding text into another tool, or simply reading a PDF's content without a PDF viewer. Scanned or image-only PDFs won't have extractable text, since there is no underlying text layer to read.
How to use it
- Upload the PDF you want to read text from.
- Click Extract Text.
- Preview the result on the page.
- Download it as a plain .txt file.
Frequently asked questions
Why is my extracted text empty or garbled?
This usually means the PDF is a scanned image rather than digitally created text, so there is no text layer to extract. A dedicated OCR tool would be needed for scanned documents.