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Drop your PDF on this page or pick one from your computer. Click Convert to text. We extract every word from every page and give you a clean .txt file you can download.

Yes. We group text items by their position on each page so lines flow top-to-bottom and left-to-right. Pages are separated with a divider so it's easy to tell them apart.

Only for PDFs that already contain a text layer. A 'scanned' PDF is essentially an image, with no underlying text. To extract text from a scan you'd need OCR (optical character recognition), which is a separate workflow.

No. Conversion happens entirely in your web browser. Your PDF and the resulting .txt file never leave your device.

Yes. The output is plain text — paste it into anything that accepts text. For a richer Word document with paragraph structure preserved, use our PDF to Word converter instead.

There's no fixed limit, but very large PDFs (hundreds of pages) take longer because everything happens in your browser. Most files convert in seconds.

Plain text can't carry visual formatting. We preserve text order; bullets and numbers come through if they're in the source as text, but tables become rows of text rather than structured cells. For tables, use our PDF to Excel converter.