Pull the plain text out of a PDF, optionally preserving the original column layout.
Get the Words Out of a PDF
Extracts the real text layer from a PDF into a plain .txt file. Turn on "preserve layout" to keep columns and table alignment, or leave it off for a clean flow of prose.
Privacy Note
This tool needs server-side processing. Your file is uploaded only for the duration of the operation and is deleted from our server immediately afterwards — it is never stored, indexed, or shared.
Key Features
- Optional layout preservation for tables and columns
- Fast — works on documents of any length
- Scanned PDFs have no text layer, so run those through OCR first
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