PDF to Text
Pull every line of text out of a PDF into a plain .txt file you can copy anywhere.
PDF to Text online, free and private
Sometimes you don't want a Word file, a spreadsheet or images — you just want the words. This tool extracts every line of text from a PDF into a plain .txt file: perfect for pasting into an email, feeding to a script or an AI model, indexing for search, or reading a long document in any editor without a PDF viewer. Lines are reconstructed in reading order, page by page, with an optional marker between pages.
The extraction runs entirely inside your browser using the same engine that renders PDFs (PDF.js). Your document is parsed locally, the text is assembled on your device, and the .txt file is handed straight back — nothing is uploaded to any server.
How to pdf to text in your browser
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Add your PDF
Click ‘Select PDF file’ or drop it onto the page. Any text-based PDF works — reports, ebooks, contracts, papers.
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Choose page handling
Keep the text continuous with a blank line between pages, or insert a visible ‘----- Page N -----’ marker so you can tell exactly where each page begins.
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Extract
Press the button and the tool walks through every page, grouping the raw text fragments into readable lines in your browser.
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Download the .txt file
The plain UTF-8 text file downloads instantly and opens in any editor, on any platform — no special software required.
Why use PDFToolz for this
Clean reading order
PDFs store text as positioned fragments, not paragraphs. The extractor groups fragments into visual lines by their position on the page and joins them left to right, so the output reads top-to-bottom the way the page does.
Plain text travels everywhere
A .txt file is the most portable format there is: paste it into an email, load it into a script, index it for full-text search, or hand it to a language model. No styling, no lock-in, just the words.
Optional page markers
When you need to cite where something appeared, turn on page markers and every page boundary is labelled in the output. Leave them off for one continuous, paste-ready text.
Private and unlimited
The extraction is client-side JavaScript, so your document never leaves your device — and there is no page cap, sign-up or fee, however long the PDF.