PDF to Text
Extracts all text content from PDF files and saves it as plain .txt files. Supports batch processing -- upload multiple PDFs and get each one's text extracted in a single operation. Powered by PyMuPDF.
How It Works
- Upload one or more PDFs by clicking the drop zone or dragging files onto it. Manage your file list with Add More and Clear buttons.
- Click Extract to start processing.
- A single file downloads as
filename.txt. Multiple files produce apdf-to-text.ziparchive.
Options
This tool has no configurable options. All text content is extracted from every page in reading order.
Output Format
- Single file:
filename.txt - Multiple files:
pdf-to-text.zipcontaining one.txtper input PDF.
Use Cases
- Extracting body text from PDF reports for full-text search indexing.
- Converting PDF ebooks or articles to plain text for reading on e-ink devices.
- Pulling text from contracts or legal documents for keyword analysis.
- Stripping formatting from PDFs to get clean text for data processing scripts.
- Preparing text corpus from PDF archives for natural language processing.
Tips
- Scanned PDFs (image-only) will produce empty text files because there is no text layer to extract. Run scanned documents through OCR first.
- The output preserves the reading order as interpreted by PyMuPDF, which generally follows left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Multi-column layouts may produce interleaved text.
- For structured output with headings and formatting, try PDF to Markdown. For AI-ready structured JSON, use Prepare PDF for AI.