PDF to Text Extractor
Extract plain text from any PDF — digital or scanned. Supports OCR for scanned documents. 100% in your browser, no upload.
✓ Free Forever✓ No Upload✓ OCR Support
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Extracts all readable text. Use OCR toggle for scanned PDFs.
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🔍 Enable OCR (for scanned PDFs)
Uses Tesseract.js — may take 30–120s. Accuracy depends on scan quality.
⚠️OCR active — processing may be slow for multi-page scanned PDFs.
ℹ️No text found in this PDF — it may be a scanned document. Enable OCR above and try again.
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How Text Extraction Works
Frequently Asked Questions
How does text extraction work? ▾
PDF.js reads embedded text from your PDF in the browser. For scanned PDFs, Tesseract.js OCR renders each page and recognises characters.
My PDF has no text — what now? ▾
Enable the OCR toggle before extracting. This renders each page as an image and runs text recognition.
Are files uploaded? ▾
Never. All processing happens 100% inside your browser.
Is there a size limit? ▾
No server limit. Most PDFs under 200 MB work fine.