PDF to TXT
Extract text from a PDF free online. Download a clean plain-text file instantly, no account required.
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Max file size 50MB
About this conversion
Extracting plain text from a PDF is useful when you want the content without the formatting — for feeding into other software, for searching and processing programmatically, or simply for reading the text in a lightweight editor. Our PDF to TXT converter strips out all visual styling and gives you the raw text content of your document.
When to use this tool
- ✓You want to copy a large amount of text from a PDF without formatting clutter
- ✓You need to import PDF content into a text editor, spreadsheet, or database
- ✓You are processing document text with code or AI tools that expect plain text input
- ✓You want to search PDF content in a plain-text environment
How it works
Upload your PDF
Select your PDF file. Text-based PDFs work best; scanned image PDFs may yield limited text.
Click Convert
Our server extracts all text layers from the PDF in reading order.
Download the TXT
The plain-text file is ready to open in any text editor — Notepad, VS Code, Sublime, or any other.
File is deleted
Your PDF and the resulting TXT are deleted from our servers automatically.