Extract the text from a PDF
When you need to quote, search, or reuse the words in a PDF, copying them page by page is painful. This tool pulls the text content out of a PDF in your browser, giving you plain text you can edit or search. Because it runs locally, confidential documents never leave your device.
How to use it
- Drop in a PDF.
- Extract its text.
- Copy the result to edit, search, or reuse.
Where it helps
- Quoting from a report without retyping.
- Searching a long document for a phrase.
- Reusing content from a PDF in another format.
Questions people ask
Why did a scanned PDF return nothing? A scan is an image of text, not text — for those you need OCR, which reads the letters from the picture.
Is my PDF uploaded? No — extraction happens locally in your browser.