Extract Text
Extract all text content from a PDF document into a plain text file.
Overview
The Extract Text tool reads the text layer of a PDF and outputs it as a plain text file. This is useful for content analysis, indexing, data migration, or simply getting a copy of the document's text without any formatting. The extraction preserves reading order and page breaks.
How to Use
- Navigate to Extract Text from the Extraction menu.
- Upload your file using drag-and-drop, Browse Files, or cloud storage (Dropbox / Google Drive).
- Click Extract to process.
- Download the result when processing completes.
Options
The tool extracts all text from every page of the PDF. The output is a plain text (.txt) file with page separators.
Tips & Notes
If your PDF is a scanned image without a text layer, run OCR PDF first to create a searchable text layer before extracting.
Formatting, images, and tables are not included in the text output. For structured data extraction from tables, use PDF to Excel instead.
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