How to use this tool
- Choose a PDF that contains selectable text.
- Choose a page range and whether to combine the text.
- Preview, copy or download the extracted text.
Extract PDF text
Extract selectable text from all or selected PDF pages. Preview and copy it, or save a single text file or one text file per page.
Does this read text in scanned pages?
This tool extracts text already embedded in a PDF. Image-only scans need optical character recognition (OCR) first.
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