PDF to Text
Pull the words out of a PDF to copy, edit or search them.
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Extract Text from a PDF
Copying text out of a PDF reader often breaks lines in odd places or grabs page numbers along the way. This page opens the PDF Converter with plain text chosen, and gives you the text of each page with a clear separator.
Made on a computer or scanned?
A PDF exported from a word processor, a website or a design tool stores real text, which comes out cleanly. A PDF from a scanner or a phone camera stores pictures of pages; for those, convert to images with PDF to JPG instead.
Related tools
To count the words of the extracted text, paste it into the word counter. To compare two versions of a document, use Text Compare.