PDF to text

What this tool does

Extract selectable PDF text into a plain text file. Recover written content for searching, copying or checking without carrying over the page design.

What you can open: One PDF with selectable text and an optional page selection.
What you will download: A UTF-8 plain text file with page separators.

How to use it

Choose the PDF and the pages containing the text.
Run extraction and download the text file.
Check reading order, symbols and line breaks against the original pages.

Options explained

Pages: Select physical page positions: all, a range such as 1-3, several choices such as 1, 4, last, or the final page with last.

Know the tradeoffs

Text extraction cannot recognize words stored only as page images.
Multi-column designs and positioned text can produce a different reading order.

Questions about this tool

Why is a scanned page missing from the text?

It may contain only an image. OCR is needed to recognize its words.

Will tables retain their original cells?

Plain text does not preserve a spreadsheet grid; use PDF to Excel when that is the goal.