About this tool
Get the text out of reports, e-books, bank statements and research papers without retyping. Text is read in page order with line breaks kept, and you can add page markers to see where each page starts.
How to use it
- Choose your PDF.
- Choose whether to keep the PDF's line breaks or join lines into paragraphs.
- Press Extract text, then copy the text or download it as a .txt file.
Questions
Why is no text found in my PDF?
Scanned PDFs are pictures of pages, not text. They need OCR (optical character recognition), which this tool does not do.
Does it keep tables and columns?
Text is kept in reading order line by line. Tables become lines of text with spaces between cells, and two-column layouts may interleave.
Can it open password-protected PDFs?
No. Remove the password in your PDF reader first, then extract the text.
Last reviewed 16 October 2026.