Extract all text from a PDF into a downloadable .txt file with paragraph structure preserved.
Perfect for students pulling text from textbooks or professionals editing locked documents.
Upload your PDF
Click the upload area or drag and drop your PDF onto the page. The file is loaded into your browser only — it is never uploaded to any server.
Preview the extracted text
The tool parses every page with PDF.js and shows a live, scrollable preview of the recovered text so you can confirm it captured what you need before saving.
Copy or download
Copy the text straight to your clipboard, or click Download to save it as a .txt file. Paste it into Word or Google Docs, where you can re-apply headings, bold, and styles in seconds.
PDF is built to be read, not edited. It freezes text, fonts, and layout into a fixed page so a document looks identical everywhere — which is exactly why you cannot easily change a word, fix a typo, or reuse a paragraph without the original source file or a paid converter like Adobe Acrobat. Most people just want the words back so they can paste them into Word, Google Docs, or an email and carry on. This tool does that instantly and privately. It reads the selectable text layer of your PDF directly in your browser using PDF.js and gives you clean, editable text you can copy or download — no upload, no account, no watermark, and no software to install. Because nothing is sent to a server, even sensitive contracts, medical records, or financial statements stay entirely on your own device. It is text extraction rather than a pixel-perfect Word rebuild: you get every word, heading, and paragraph ready to edit, which is what the vast majority of "PDF to Word" searches are actually after.
Students & researchers
Pull quotes, data, and references out of academic papers, textbooks, and journal PDFs without retyping — then cite and annotate them in your own document.
Legal & compliance teams
Extract clauses from contracts and agreements to redline, compare versions, or reformat — without sending confidential documents to a third-party cloud service.
Content & marketing
Recover copy from old brochures, whitepapers, and PDF reports to repurpose into blog posts, slides, or refreshed web pages.
Administrators & HR
Lift text from forms, policy documents, and onboarding packs to update wording or paste into emails and templates.
Translators
Get the raw source text out of a PDF so you can run it through a translation workflow without fighting the original layout.
No. All processing happens locally in your browser using PDF.js. Your file never leaves your device, which makes this safe for confidential or sensitive documents.
Paragraphs and line breaks are preserved. Complex multi-column layouts, tables, and exact fonts are linearised into a clean single reading flow — you re-apply styling in your word processor, which takes moments.
Most people searching for "PDF to Word" simply want editable text they can paste into Word or Docs. Extracting clean text avoids the broken, garbled .docx files that automated layout converters often produce, and keeps everything private in your browser.
Scanned PDFs are pictures of text and contain no selectable text layer, so extraction returns nothing. Use our OCR PDF tool first to convert the scan into real text, then bring it here.
PDFs up to about 100MB process comfortably. Very large files take a little longer because all the work happens on your own computer.
No fixed page limit. The tool reads the whole document; longer PDFs simply take a few seconds more to parse.
Yes. The tool runs in any modern mobile browser. Copy the extracted text and paste it into the Google Docs or Word app on your device.
Yes — completely free, no sign-up, no watermark, and no daily conversion cap. The output is plain text exactly as it appears in your PDF.