▦ PDF TOOLS Updated July 25, 2026

PDF to Text

Pull the text layer out of any PDF so you can copy, search or reuse it.

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    How it works
    Drop in a PDF and the built-in reader walks every page, reads its text layer and joins the words back into readable lines. Choose whether to keep page separators. Scanned PDFs that are just photos of paper have no text layer, so they return nothing — those need OCR.
     
    Examples
    Split a report1-4, 5-9, 10-12 → three PDFs
    Burst a scanEvery page separately → page-by-page PDFs
     
    Related tools
    ◗Compress PDF◒Crop PDF◩Extract PDF Pages
      
    Frequently asked questions
    Why is my result empty?
    The PDF is most likely a scan — an image of a page with no text layer. Extraction can only read real text.
    Does it keep the layout?
    It keeps reading order and line breaks, not columns and tables exactly. For structured data, extract and then tidy in a spreadsheet.
    Can I extract just a few pages?
    Yes — set a page range such as 2-5 before extracting.
      
     
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