Extract plain text from a PDF in your browser - perfect for searching, quoting, or feeding into AI tools. No upload.
Going PDF to TXT is what you want when you need the words, not the layout. Researchers grabbing quotes from a paper, students prepping notes from a textbook, anyone feeding a long PDF into ChatGPT or a search index - all of them just need the text. Stripping it out manually means copy-pasting page by page; this does it in one click.
Extraction runs locally via Mozilla's PDF.js engine: we read each page's text layer (the same one your PDF viewer uses for select-and-copy) and concatenate it with page breaks. PDFs that store their content as scanned images won't yield text - those need OCR, which is a separate workflow. Everything happens in your browser; no PDF is uploaded.
PDF is the universal document format - looks the same on every device, prints reliably, and is the canonical way to share images that should stay fixed in layout.
A plain UTF-8 text file with no formatting. Opens in every editor on every device. Perfect for piping into other tools, grep-able search, and feeding into LLMs.
Drag a PDF onto the converter above, or click the box to pick one from your device.
We've preselected TXT as the output format. Change it from the dropdown if you want a different target.
Click Convert and wait for the progress bar to finish. Download the TXT when it's ready.
Convert a PDF to JPG images - one image per page, packaged as a ZIP for multi-page PDFs.
Render PDF pages to lossless PNG images - perfect for sharing diagrams, slides, or screenshots-style pages.
Turn a plain text file into a printable PDF in seconds - free, browser-only, no signup.