About PDF Text Extractor

PDF Text Extractor was built on a simple conviction: you shouldn't have to upload a private document to a stranger's server just to get its text back. Modern browsers are powerful enough to do the whole job locally — so that's exactly what this tool does.

The technology

• pdf.js (Mozilla) parses the PDF and reads each page's native text layer, with layout-aware line reconstruction.
• Tesseract.js performs OCR on scanned pages, compiled to WebAssembly and running in a Web Worker in your browser.
• A hybrid pipeline decides per page: instant text-layer extraction when possible, high-resolution OCR when necessary.
• Zero build step, zero backend — one HTML file served from GitHub Pages.

Free and open source

The complete source code is published under the MIT license on GitHub. Star it, fork it, audit it, self-host it — it's yours. Bug reports and pull requests are welcome.

Who makes it

Bros.AI builds pragmatic, privacy-respecting AI and web tools. PDF Text Extractor is one of our free utilities — see our privacy commitments.