Turn your PDF files into TXT in seconds. Everything happens in your browser: nothing is uploaded to any server.
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Or paste them with Ctrl+V. They never leave your device.
Pull the text out of a PDF to copy, translate or analyse it without fighting the viewer’s selection.
Editing its content or reusing its images and text is not straightforward. As plain text you can copy it, search it or paste it anywhere.
PDF fixes the look of a document (text, images and layout) so it appears the same on any screen or printer.
Strengths: It is the standard for sending, signing, printing and archiving documents.
Limits: Editing its content or reusing its images and text is not straightforward.
TXT is text without any formatting: just characters and line breaks.
Strengths: Absolutely any program opens it and it takes minimal space.
Limits: It has no headings, bold text, images or layout.
No. The PDF to TXT conversion runs entirely in your browser, with code downloaded from this site and executed on your device. You can check it in the Network tab of the developer tools or by going offline after the page loads.
If the PDF comes from a scanner or a photo, its pages are images: the text you see does not exist as text. Those cases need optical character recognition (OCR).
It depends on your device’s memory; on desktop PDFs with hundreds of pages work fine. For very large images, lower the resolution.
Yes. Drop as many PDF files as you like: several are converted at the same time, depending on your processor cores, and when they finish you can download each TXT or all of them in a ZIP.