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PDF to Text Converter

Upload a PDF and get the extracted text in seconds. No signup, no watermarks, no limits on how many you convert.

Drop your PDF here

or click to browse — up to 10 MB

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Completely anonymous. We don't store your files.

Plain text output

Clean text, ready to paste into any editor.

Up to 10 MB

Handles most documents. Larger PDFs: split first.

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How the PDF to Text converter works

Your PDF is uploaded directly to our server, parsed using the pdf-parse library, and the extracted text is returned to your browser. We don't store your file or its contents — everything is discarded after extraction. The output is clean plain text: paragraphs, line breaks, and structure preserved where possible.

Limitations

This tool extracts embedded text from PDFs. It cannot read text from scanned (image-only) PDFs — those need OCR software like Adobe Acrobat or Google Docs. Tables and complex multi-column layouts may not preserve their visual structure in the plain-text output. Max file size is 10 MB.