Useful Hacks

PDF to Text

Extract selectable text content from a PDF.

Processed locally in your browser using PDF.js and pdf-lib. Your file is never uploaded.

Overview

Extracts the selectable text layer from a PDF. Scanned PDFs made of images only (with no text layer) will produce no output, since this doesn't perform OCR.

How to use it

  1. 1Upload a PDF.
  2. 2Extracted text appears in the output panel.
  3. 3Copy or download as .txt.

Tips

  • If a scanned document produces no text, it's an image-only PDF — OCR (optical character recognition) would be needed, which this tool doesn't perform.

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