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PDF to text

Get the text out of any PDF - to copy into an email, a document or an AI chat. Pages that are scans are read with OCR automatically.

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How to use PDF to text

  1. PDFdocument.pdf
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    Choose your file

    Drop it on the page or pick it from your phone or computer.

  2. Get the text
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    Press "Get the text"

    Pick the options you want - the defaults suit most files.

  3. TXTCopy text / .txt
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    Download the result

    Ready in seconds. Your file never left your device.

Digital and scanned pages

Most PDFs contain their text, which is read instantly and exactly. Pages that are pictures (scans, photos) have no text inside; they are drawn and read with OCR in the language you choose. Each page is marked in the result.

Need the tables in Excel instead?

To keep rows and columns, use PDF to Excel - it rebuilds tables with real numbers and dates.

Questions

Why are some lines in an odd order?

Text in several columns is read in the order the PDF stores it. For tables, PDF to Excel keeps the layout far better.

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PDF to CSV

Turn the tables in a PDF into CSV files: one header row, one line per record, numbers without thousands separators and dates as YYYY-MM-DD - the format other programs import without trouble.

JPG to PDF

Turn photos, scans and screenshots into a single PDF - one image per A4 page, in the order you set. Works with JPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF and BMP.

Excel to PDF

Make a printable PDF from an Excel workbook. Each sheet becomes a neat table with its heading row repeated on every page, and wide sheets are laid out in landscape.