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Get the text out of a PDF
Save the words inside a PDF as a plain text file, ready to paste anywhere.
Your files stay on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
How it works
Choose your PDF
Drop it in or pick it from your device.
We read every page
Text is pulled out in reading order.
Download
Get a .txt file you can open anywhere.
Questions
Why is the file empty?
The PDF is probably a scan, which is just pictures of pages with no text underneath. Use PDF to Image instead.
Are tables and columns kept?
Not their exact layout, only the words, roughly in reading order.