Extract Text from PDF
Convert PDF to plain text online — extract clean, readable text from any PDF (native or scanned) ready to feed into search, analysis, or AI workflows.
Why teams use PDF to Text
PDF to TXT extraction is the foundation of search indexing, AI ingestion, plain-text archive, and any analysis workflow that needs raw words rather than formatted pages. This tool pulls every line of text out of your PDF in reading order, handling multi-column layouts correctly (the text reads down each column rather than across the page), preserving paragraph breaks, and detecting and removing repeated headers and footers that would otherwise pollute the output.
For native PDFs (those exported from Word, accounting software, design tools), extraction is exact — every character that was placed in the PDF appears in the text output. For scanned PDFs, OCR runs automatically with UK-English language settings and outputs the recognised text, with a confidence indicator so you know how trustworthy a given page is. UTF-8 encoding preserves accented characters, £ signs, and special punctuation correctly.
Used for feeding documents into AI assistants and RAG pipelines, building plain-text search corpora, archiving documents in human-readable form, and quoting from PDFs in writing without retyping. Files run over TLS, are deleted within an hour, and never logged or used to train any AI model.
How it works
- Upload PDF — Drop your document
- Extract — All text is captured automatically
- Download TXT — Get plain text ready for use
Key benefits
- Extracts all text from multi-page PDFs
- OCR for scanned documents
- Perfect for data analysis and processing
- Copy-paste ready output
- Works with complex layouts
- Maintains paragraph structure
Common use cases
- Extracting content for data analysis
- Getting text from scanned documents
- Preparing content for translation
Frequently asked questions
- Is PDF to Text free to use?
- Yes — your first conversion is free with no signup. For heavier use, DocumePro offers a £9.99 24-hour Day Pass and a £39.99/month Professional plan with unlimited conversions.
- Are my files kept after I use PDF to Text?
- No. Every uploaded file is permanently deleted from DocumePro servers within 60 minutes under our Non-Persistence Guarantee. Nothing is retained, shared, or used to train AI models.
- Do I need to install any software?
- No — PDF to Text runs entirely in your browser. There's nothing to install and no plug-in required. It works on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android.
- Is DocumePro suitable for UK legal, finance and accounting teams?
- Yes. DocumePro is UK GDPR-aligned, hosted on UK/EU infrastructure, and built specifically for solicitors, accountants, bookkeepers and finance teams that handle sensitive client documents.
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Upload your PDF above to get a clean .txt file — reading-order extraction, multi-column aware, OCR-fallback for scans.