📋Extract Text from PDF
Extract body text from a PDF as .txt. Useful for searching or translating. Scanned PDFs (images) may not yield text.
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How to use
- 1Upload a PDF.
- 2Extracted text appears in the preview.
- 3Download as .txt or copy.
- 4Paste into ChatGPT, a translator, or your notes app.
FAQ
Does it work on scanned PDFs?+
Scans are images, so there's no text to extract. They need OCR — this tool doesn't include OCR.
The line breaks look weird. Why?+
PDFs store text by visual position. Two-column layouts, footnotes, or headers can mix up the extracted order.
Are tables and image-text extracted?+
Text inside tables is usually extracted, but the table structure (cell borders) is lost. Text inside images isn't extracted.
Does it handle mixed Korean/Hanja/English/emojis?+
Yes. Saved as UTF-8, so any character is preserved.
Password-protected PDFs?+
Not yet — unlock first.
How do I use the result as search data?+
The .txt is plain text, so code editors and grep-like tools work directly. For keyword extraction, try [word frequency].