PDF to Text Online
Extract readable text from PDF files quickly and privately.
PDF to Text Online
Extract selectable text from PDF documents directly in your browser and turn it into plain text that is easier to copy, edit, search or save as a TXT file. This can be useful for reports, notes, reference documents and other PDFs that already contain a readable text layer.
How to extract text from a PDF
- Select the PDF file.
- Click Extract Text.
- Review the extracted content.
- Copy the text or download it as a TXT file.
What type of PDF works best?
The best results come from digitally created PDFs containing selectable text. These documents store characters that can be read directly by a PDF parser instead of only displaying a picture of a page.
Scanned PDFs and OCR
A scanned PDF may contain page images without an underlying text layer. In that case, normal text extraction can return little or no content. Optical character recognition (OCR) is required to recognize words from page images.
Why convert PDF to plain text?
Plain text is useful when you need to quote a section, move content into another editor, search through document wording, prepare notes or save information without the original PDF layout.
Privacy
The extraction process is designed to run in the browser, so the selected document does not need to be intentionally uploaded to eko24.net for text processing.
Frequently asked questions
Will the original PDF formatting be preserved?
No. The output focuses on extracted text rather than reproducing the original page design.
Why is no text extracted from my scan?
The file may contain only images and therefore require OCR.
Can I download the result?
Yes. The extracted content can be saved as a plain TXT file when supported by the tool.