Can I extract text from a scanned PDF?

Yes! Enable the OCR option and our engine will recognize text in scanned pages. OCR supports English and German.

Will formatting be preserved?

PDF to Text extracts raw text only. For formatted output with tables and styles, use PDF to Word instead.

In layout mode, table columns are separated by spaces to approximate the original alignment. For proper table extraction, use PDF to Excel.

No page limit. All pages are processed. You can also select specific page ranges for partial extraction.

Copy or download plain text

Extract plain text from any PDF - copy or download as .txt

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Select the PDF from which you want to extract text. Both digital and scanned PDFs are supported (with OCR).

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Select flowing text for clean paragraphs, or layout mode to preserve column structure. For scanned documents, use our OCR tool first.

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Preview the extracted text in your browser. Copy it to your clipboard with one click, or download as a .txt file.

PDF to Word

Convert PDF to editable Word documents

OCR PDF

Extract text from scanned documents