Extract PDF Text
Extract selectable text from a digital PDF locally — copy, search, or download as TXT or Markdown.
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Choose a digital PDF with a text layer. Scanned PDFs need OCR, which isn't available in this version.
Your PDF is processed locally in your browser and is never uploaded to our servers.
This tool reads the embedded text layer of a digital PDF and shows it as searchable, copyable text. Nothing is uploaded — the PDF is opened directly in your browser. Arabic and other right-to-left scripts are preserved. Reading order is reconstructed from the PDF's own text-item coordinates and is generally correct for straightforward single-column pages; complex layouts such as multi-column pages, tables, running headers/footers, and heavily positioned text may be ordered imperfectly. Scanned PDFs with no embedded text are detected separately; OCR is not included in this version.
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