Extract the text from any PDF, without uploading it

Sometimes you don't need a Word document — you just need the raw text: to paste into a note, search across dozens of contracts, feed to a script, or index for a personal search tool. This extractor uses Mozilla's pdf.js library, entirely in your browser, to pull the text layer out of a PDF page by page.

Because it runs client-side, your PDF is never uploaded anywhere. That matters for legal briefs, medical records, financial reports, HR documents — anything you would think twice about handing to a third-party website.

What you get

• All embedded text, concatenated across pages.
• Each page is separated by --- Page N --- markers so you can navigate a long document.
• Copy to clipboard with one click, or download as a .txt file.

When this tool works — and when it doesn't

It works on any PDF that has a real text layer, which is the vast majority of PDFs generated by Word, Google Docs, LaTeX, InDesign, Chrome print-to-PDF, and so on.

It does not work on scanned PDFs (photos of paper saved as PDF) because there is no text to extract — only images of text. For those, use our Image to Text (OCR) tool to run Tesseract OCR on each page.