Pull the text out of a PDF as a plain text file. Upload your PDF and download the .txt — scanned pages are read with OCR automatically.
For a normal PDF we extract the embedded text; for a scanned (image-only) PDF we fall back to OCR so you still get usable text. The result is a clean .txt file.
Anonymous uploads are temporary and encrypted in transit. No account needed.
Upload your PDF — it's pre-set to output a .txt file. Download the text; for scanned PDFs we OCR the pages automatically.
Yes — if the PDF has no embedded text we run OCR to recognise the words. Clear, high-resolution scans give the best results.
Yes — no account, over an encrypted connection, and anonymous files are temporary.
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