PDF to Text Converter — free, online and private

Need the plain text out of a PDF? This free converter turns any PDF into text directly in your browser: drag & drop your file, and the text appears page by page, ready to copy or download as .txt or Markdown.

➜ Convert your PDF to text now

Why this converter is different

No upload — most online converters send your document to a server. Here, everything runs locally with pdf.js and Tesseract.js: your file never leaves your device.
Works with scanned PDFs — pages without a text layer are automatically recognized with built-in OCR, with a confidence score per page.
No limits — no signup, no watermark, no page cap, no daily quota. It's open source (MIT).
Faithful text — line breaks are reconstructed from the PDF's glyph positions, so paragraphs stay readable.

How to convert a PDF to text

Open the extractor and drop your PDF (or click to browse, or paste with Ctrl+V).
Wait a few seconds — digital pages are instant; scanned pages take a moment for OCR.
Copy all the text, or download it as a .txt or .md file.

For a detailed walkthrough, read the step-by-step guide.

Supported files and languages

Any standard PDF up to 200 MB, including multi-file batches. OCR supports English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese. Password-protected PDFs must be unlocked first.