PDF to Text
Extract the selectable text from a PDF and copy or download it as plain text.
Leave empty to extract the whole document.
Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
About the PDF to Text
The Freemium.Tools PDF to text extractor pulls the selectable text out of a PDF and hands it back as clean, copyable plain text — entirely inside your browser, with no upload.
Copying text out of a PDF page by page produces broken lines, stray hyphens and lost paragraphs. This extractor reads the text layer directly, so the words arrive in reading order with line breaks where the document actually had them.
It is the fastest route to getting a contract, a research paper or a report into a notes app, a translation tool or an AI assistant. You can limit extraction to a page range, and mark where each page begins when you need to cite them.
How to use it
- 1Drop your PDF. The file is opened on your device; it is never sent to a server.
- 2Choose the pages. Extract everything, or type a range such as 1-3, 7, 10-.
- 3Copy or download. Take the text straight to your clipboard, or download it as a .txt file.
Frequently asked questions
Why is nothing extracted from my PDF?
Your PDF is almost certainly a scan — the pages are photographs of text, so there is no text layer to read. You would need OCR software for that kind of file.
Is my document uploaded?
No. The PDF is opened and read inside your browser tab, which is why confidential contracts and medical reports are safe to use here.
Will the layout be preserved?
Paragraph flow and line breaks are preserved, but multi-column layouts and tables are flattened into reading order, because plain text has no columns.
Is there a file size limit?
Only your device's memory. Very large PDFs take longer because every page's text layer is read individually.
Can I extract only certain pages?
Yes. Enter a range like 2-5, 9 and only those pages are processed, which is much faster on long documents.