What is PDF to Text?
Extract the text layer of a PDF in page order. You can grab all the text at once even from PDFs that are awkward to copy from. For scanned PDFs, use “PDF OCR”.
How to use
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Choose a PDF.
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Press “Extract text” and the text appears.
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Copy it or download it as a TXT file.
Use cases
Quoting papers
Extract the body of a paper as text to quote from it.
Checking length
Check the extracted text with the character counter.
FAQ
Are my files uploaded to a server?+
No. Everything is processed in your browser and files are never uploaded anywhere.