How It Works
1. Upload PDF
Select any PDF file. Works with digital PDFs containing text.
2. Extract
We extract all text content while preserving paragraph structure.
3. Copy or Download
Copy text to clipboard or download as a .txt file.
Need this in a production workflow?
Move from one-off browser work to larger files, background jobs, API automation, and PDF audio when the document flow grows.
How It Works
Step 1: Upload Your PDF
Native digital PDFs extract instantly; scanned books route through the bundled OCR path without a server round-trip.
Step 2: Extract & Clean
Copy plain text for prompts, cite checking, or translation prep. Download .txt for diffing and scripting.
Step 3: Optional OCR Pass
Image-only pages invoke Tesseract in-browser — slower but completely local for sensitive bundles.
Why Use This Tool
- Fastest path from PDF to UTF-8 text for LLM prompts and litigation prep
- No copy restrictions from “secure” viewers — you control the export locally
- Pairs with pdf-to-word when you need structure, not just plaintext
- Handles large compliance dumps up to ~150 MB where RAM allows
Common Use Cases
Quote discovery for legal memos, feed research papers into summarizers, unlock text from customer support attachments, and preprocess bundles before regex or NLP workflows.
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