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PDF to Text

PDF to text: extract the embedded text of a PDF into a plain TXT file that you can search, copy or paste into another document.

Synthetic example — review the operation settings before running.

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Local limits: Max single file: 10 MB

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A practical guide

Copy the text out of a PDF.

  1. Add a PDF that contains selectable text.
  2. Run the task to extract the text.
  3. Open the TXT file and check the reading order.

Try this example

A 9-page bank statement is hard to copy from a viewer. Extract it and you get a TXT file that you can search for a payment reference.

Before

  • Selectable PDF text

After

  • Plain text .txt
Input and expected output for this task. Illustrative example.

Before you start: A scanned PDF has no text layer, so an error is shown. Reading order may differ from the layout; this is not OCR.

Continue with the source PDF
What you get

Extract embedded text into a TXT file. Scanned pages need OCR; source reading order may differ from the visible layout.

Limits and important details

Maximum 10 MiB input, 200 pages and 4 MiB text output. Scanned documents without a text layer report an error instead of a fake successful extraction. Reading order, columns and fonts may not match visual layout. This is not OCR or PDF-to-Word.

Example

Extract text from a searchable report, review it in the result field and copy or download it. Original PDFs remain available after the text result.