Free PDF to text converter, OCR included.

Drop the PDF onto the tool and press Extract. If the PDF has a real text layer (most digital PDFs do), the text appears instantly. If it is a scan with no text layer, the tool renders each page and runs OCR in your browser, then shows the result the same way. Copy it or download it as a .txt file.

Yes. Pages without a usable text layer are automatically OCR'd with the same engine as our image-to-text tool, in 24 languages. Pick the document's language before extracting for the best accuracy. Scan quality matters: clean, straight, high-resolution scans read best.

No. Both the text-layer reading and the OCR run entirely in your browser. The file never leaves your device, which is exactly what you want for contracts, bank statements, medical records, and IDs.

Two common reasons: the PDF is a scan (a photo of text, with no text layer), or it uses broken font encoding. This tool solves the first case with OCR automatically. For the second, OCR can also help: extract with OCR by choosing a language even if a text layer technically exists.

24 languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Indonesian, Arabic, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Hindi, Thai, and Vietnamese. The language model downloads on demand the first time you use it.

Not directly; encrypted PDFs cannot be opened without the password. Remove the password first (open the PDF with its password and print or save it as a new PDF), then extract.

The extracted text appears in an editable box: fix anything, then copy it to the clipboard or download it as a .txt file. Plain text pastes cleanly into Word, Google Docs, email, or any editor.

No hard limit. Digital PDFs of hundreds of pages extract in seconds. OCR is heavier: expect a few seconds per scanned page, since your own device is doing the recognition work.

For a clean digital PDF, manual copy works but loses you time on multi-page documents and often scrambles the reading order of columns. For scans, manual copy is impossible; OCR is the only way. This tool handles both paths in one place, with a per-page structure kept in the output.

Yes. No accounts, no daily caps, no watermark on anything. The processing cost is your own device's, which is why we can keep it free and private at the same time.