Extract text from any PDF
This PDF to text converter pulls every word out of a PDF so you can copy it into an email, a Word document or a translator, or search and edit it. Line breaks and paragraphs are kept, columns are read in order, and each page is marked so you can find where the text came from.
Tick Join lines into paragraphs to remove the line breaks that PDFs put at the end of every printed line, which gives clean, flowing text.
Questions
Why is no text found in my PDF?
Scanned documents and photos saved as PDF contain pictures of text rather than real text. Those need OCR (text recognition), which this tool doesn't do yet.
Does it work with other languages?
Yes. Text in any language stored in the PDF is extracted, including Hindi, Chinese and Arabic.
Is my PDF uploaded?
No. The text is read inside your browser.