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Convert PDF to Text
Extract all the text from a PDF with page breaks preserved, preview it, then copy to clipboard or download as a .txt file.
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How it works
Drop in your PDF
The text layer is extracted locally, page by page.
Preview the text
Scroll the result with page markers between each page.
Copy or download
Send it to your clipboard or save it as a .txt file.
Pull every word out of a PDF into plain text, with a "--- Page N ---" marker between pages so you always know where each block came from. Preview the result, copy it to your clipboard, or download it as a .txt file ready for scripts, search, or an AI tool.
Extraction reads the document’s text layer: scanned PDFs produce nothing until they are OCRed, and complex multi-column layouts can come out in a different reading order than the page suggests. For OCR and structure-aware extraction, use the full PDFDepth app.
Questions, answered
The PDF is probably a scan with no text layer. Run it through OCR in the PDFDepth app first.
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