Extract all text content from PDF
Last updated: 2026-10-08
PDF to Text is a free online tool that extracts all readable text content from a PDF and outputs it as a plain .txt file, openable in any text editor or word processor. It works best with digital, typed PDFs where text is embedded as selectable characters; scanned, image-based PDFs typically won't extract text correctly because there's no underlying text layer — for those, the separate OCR PDF tool should be used instead. Extraction happens entirely client-side in the browser, so the source document is never uploaded to a server, which matters when extracting text from confidential reports or personal documents. There is no page limit: PDFs of any length can be processed. The tool requires no account, no installation, and no payment, and works the same way across desktop and mobile browsers. Output preserves the original reading order of the text as it appears in the source PDF.
Scanned PDFs are image-based, so text extraction may not work. It works best with digital/typed PDFs.
Plain text (.txt) file that you can open in any text editor or Word.
No. Extract text from PDFs with any number of pages.
Yes, all 32 tools are 100% free forever. No hidden charges, no premium version, no login required.
No. We have zero file size restrictions. Process any PDF of any size, as many times as you want.