Privacy-first • 100% local processing

PDF to Text

Extract readable text from PDF locally in your browser. No upload. No saving. No storage.

Privacy: 100% Local Fast mode Clean text option

Drag & drop a PDF Your file stays on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

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Options

Preserve line breaks Clean text

Clean text: removes extra spaces and rejoins words hyphenated at line breaks.

Status

Ready.

Privacy notice

Processing runs entirely in your browser. We do not upload, store, or log your file contents.

Result preview

Local preview • truncated for large files

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Is my PDF file uploaded to a server?

No. Your file is read and processed entirely in your browser — it never leaves your device.

Why does the extracted text sometimes look garbled?

Some PDFs are scanned images, or have complex layouts (columns, tables). Scanned PDFs require an OCR tool to extract text.

Does this tool work on scanned PDFs?

Not yet. This tool extracts text from PDFs that have a native text layer. For scanned PDFs, please use an OCR tool.

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