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Convert PDF to Text — copy-ready.

Clean plain text — no formatting, just the words, ready to reuse. Ready in 5 seconds.

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What you actually get back

A PDF goes in. Clean editable text comes out.

Every word, paragraph and line — extracted as clean plain text you can copy, search and reuse anywhere. No PDF junk, no broken breaks.

PDFannual-report.pdf · 1.4 MB
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TXTannual-report.txt · plain text
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edit Plain text · opens in any editor
checkJust the words, clean. Copy, paste, search, reformat — no PDF junk, no broken line breaks. Opens in Notepad, VS Code, any editor.
3 steps · 5 seconds

Convert in three clicks.

No downloads, no accounts, no friction.

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Drop your PDF

PDFs up to 100 MB. Drag, browse, or paste a link.

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We convert it

Text is extracted in reading order, with line breaks cleaned up.

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Download your .txt

Open in any text editor — Notepad, VS Code, anything. Reuse instantly.

Built for getting the words out, clean.

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When you just need the words

Four PDFs. Four clean text files.

The moments when retyping is not an option.

schedule 11:48 PM · Sunday

"Need to quote the report."

A researcher in Lisbon needs three paragraphs from a 90-page PDF to quote in her paper. Extracts clean text, pastes the passage, cites it — no manual retyping.

school Extract text
schedule 7:42 AM · Tuesday

"Feed it to the model."

A developer in Berlin needs the text from a PDF spec to paste into an AI prompt. Extracts clean plain text — no layout noise, no junk — and pastes it straight in.

terminal Copy to prompt
schedule 16:55 · Friday

"Reuse last year's copy."

A marketer in Singapore wants last year's brochure copy for the new site. Extracts the text from the PDF, drops it into the CMS — no copy-typing the whole thing again.

content_copy Copy + reuse
schedule 02:13 AM · Saturday

"Translate the manual."

A designer in Madrid has a product manual as PDF and needs it translated. Extracts the text, runs it through a translator, ships the localized copy — before her flight at 6 AM.

translate Extract + translate

Reviews from people who just needed the words.

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TrustScore 4.8Based on 5,247 reviews

"Finally, just the words."

I pull text from research PDFs every week. This is the only one that gives me clean text in the right reading order — no jumbled columns. Saves me 20 minutes per file.

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James W.
Property Manager · London, UK

"Pasted straight into my notes."

I had 30 PDFs to pull quotes from for a report. Extracted the text from all of them in 10 minutes, pasted into my notes. Used to take 3 hours of retyping.

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Lena S.
Founder · Berlin, Germany

"OCR nailed the scan."

I had a scanned PDF — just images of text. The OCR pulled every word out accurately, even the footnotes. Dropped it straight into my doc. Just works.

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Wei C.
Software Engineer · Singapore

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Yes. You get real, selectable plain text — copy, paste, search and reuse it anywhere. No images of text, no OCR artifacts on digital PDFs. Open it in any editor.
Yes. We extract text in natural reading order — multi-column pages are un-jumbled, headers and paragraphs kept in sequence, hyphenated line breaks rejoined.
Yes. Our AI-powered OCR turns scanned images into real text in 100+ languages. Accuracy averages 99.4% on English, 98%+ on most European languages.
Your first conversion is free, no signup needed. Paid plans cover unlimited conversions, batch processing and team features — but the essentials stay free.
Encrypted with 256-bit SSL during upload and at rest, auto-deleted 1 hour after you finish. SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant.
Fully. Drop, convert, download — Chrome, Safari, on iPhone, iPad, Android. No app required, no install.
Plain .txt in UTF-8 by default, so accented characters, CJK and emoji all survive. Need .md or .csv instead? Those export options are one click away.
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