Extract text from a PDF — copy, download, and search your content
Upload a PDF and extract readable text from all pages or a selected range. Perfect for pulling content from reports, forms, and documents when you need to reuse text quickly.
PDF Text Extractor
Leave empty to extract text from all pages.
How it works
This tool uses PDF.js to read your document locally and reconstruct text from each page. It works well for digital PDFs and many scanned documents that already contain embedded OCR text.
- If you get very little output from a scanned PDF, the file probably contains only images (no OCR layer).
- Use a page range to speed up extraction on large documents.
- Spacing and line breaks can differ from the original layout because PDFs store text in positioned fragments.
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FAQ
Only if the scanned PDF contains an OCR text layer. If it is image-only, you will get little or no text.
No. All processing happens in your browser.
Yes. Use the page range field (e.g., 2-5, 9, 12-13).