Extract Text from PDF

Drag it into the drop zone or click Select PDF File. Thumbnails appear in the sidebar.

Use Select All, Odd, Even, click individual thumbnails, or type a range and press Go.

Tick Enable OCR and pick the language (English, Spanish, French, or German) for scanned or photographed pages.

Click Extract All or Extract Selected, fix any OCR slips in the editable panel, Search to find keywords, then Download TXT or copy the text.

Upload the PDF, choose which pages you want, and click Extract All or Extract Selected. The text appears in an editable panel where you can search, tidy it up, and copy or Download TXT. For scanned PDFs, tick Enable OCR first. It all runs in your browser, with no upload.

Tick Enable OCR and choose the language, then extract. A scanned PDF is just images of pages with no text layer, so standard extraction returns nothing — OCR reads the text directly from the images. It's slower than digital extraction, so use it only for scans and photos.

Yes. Use Odd or Even to grab alternating pages — useful for double-sided scans — Select All for everything, or type a range like "1-3, 5" and press Go. You can also click individual thumbnails in the sidebar. Then choose Extract Selected to process just those pages.

You can run OCR in English, Spanish, French, or German. Picking the right language matters for scanned documents, because it helps the engine recognise accented characters and language-specific words correctly. For a digital (non-scanned) PDF, the language setting isn't needed.

Yes. The output appears in an editable panel, so you can correct any OCR slips, delete unwanted lines, or tidy the formatting right there before you download or copy it. This is handy for scans, where OCR occasionally misreads a character or two.

Yes. A search box lets you jump to keywords within the extracted text, and you can select and copy any part of it or Download TXT for the whole result. The editable panel makes it easy to grab just the section you need from a long document.

No. The PDF is parsed locally in your browser, so it never leaves your device or reaches a server. Once the OCR language model is cached, extraction can run offline. That makes the tool well suited to contracts, medical records, or anything confidential. Closing the tab clears the file from memory.

Yes. The tool works in any modern browser on iPhone or Android, with no app to install. Upload, extract, edit, and download. OCR on a large scanned document is memory-heavy, so it runs faster on a laptop than on an older phone.

Yes. Extraction is free, there's no watermark, and no account is required — and no one-page OCR cap like some free tools impose. Upload, extract, edit if needed, and download the text.

This page is built for pulling, editing, and copying text, with odd/even page selection and multi-language OCR. PDF to Text focuses on converting and exporting, with TXT, DOCX, JSON, and per-page ZIP output. Pick this one to read and edit; pick that one to export to a specific format.

Blank usually means the PDF is scanned — turn on Enable OCR. Garbled text usually means a low-quality scan or the wrong OCR language: choose the correct language, and for poor scans, a higher-resolution, straight, high-contrast original gives much better results. You can fix small errors directly in the editable panel.

Extract in smaller selections rather than the whole document at once, and reserve OCR for the pages that are genuinely scanned. OCR is memory-intensive, so processing odd/even or a page range in batches keeps the browser responsive and avoids a frozen tab on big files.