PDF to Text

1. 1Add your PDF.
2. 2Wait a moment while each page is read.
3. 3Choose whether to keep page-break markers and original line breaks.
4. 4Copy the text, or download it as a .txt file.

Each page's text fragments are read along with their positions, grouped into lines, and joined in reading order. Two options change how the output is assembled: page markers insert a labelled divider between pages, and line-break handling decides whether the PDF's visual line endings are kept or whether lines are joined back into flowing paragraphs.

Joining lines into paragraphs is the better choice when you want to paste the text somewhere else, because PDFs break lines to fit the page, not to mark the end of a sentence. Keeping the original breaks is better for poetry, code listings and address blocks.

The file is read into your browser's memory, changed there, and handed straight back to you. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no queue and no copy sitting on a server afterwards.