Converter
Pull clean text out of a PDF without uploading it.
Layout line-breaks rejoined, hyphenated words repaired, headings detected. Copy it, download it as .txt or Markdown, and get word count, page count, and read time alongside.
- Rejoins hard-wrapped paragraphs instead of dumping one line per visual line.
- Repairs words split by end-of-line hyphens, which most extractors leave broken.
- Three output modes: clean prose, raw extraction, or Markdown with headings.
Why most PDF text extraction comes out unreadable
A PDF does not store paragraphs. It stores glyphs at coordinates, and the line breaks you see are layout decisions, not sentence boundaries. Naive extraction therefore returns a hard-wrapped mess: one line per visual line, words split across hyphens, headings indistinguishable from body copy.
This tool reassembles it. A line that ends mid-clause is joined to the next; a line ending in sentence punctuation keeps its break; a word broken by an end-of-line hyphen is stitched back together. Short lines with no terminal punctuation are recognised as headings, which is what makes the Markdown export useful rather than decorative.
- Clean prose — paragraphs as the author wrote them.
- As extracted — exactly what came out, when you need to see the raw shape.
- Markdown — detected headings promoted to level-two headings, ready for a doc or a repo.
Nothing here is gated, and nothing is uploaded
Extraction, cleanup, copying, and both downloads are free and unlimited, signed in or not. There is no page cap, no watermark, and no email wall, because none of this costs us anything — it runs on your machine using APIs your browser already ships.
That also answers the privacy question before it is asked. Open your network tab while you use this: there is no request carrying your document, because there is nowhere for it to go.
What people usually do next
Extracting text is rarely the goal. It is step one of something else — feeding a model, rebuilding a deck, quoting a source, or getting a document into a format people will actually engage with.
If it is the last of those, the text file will not help. A report nobody finished reading as a PDF is a report nobody will finish reading as a .txt. The format that changes the outcome is video: the same content, narrated, watchable in the places your audience already is.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a page limit or a watermark?
Neither. Extraction is unlimited and the output is plain text with nothing added. The tool runs entirely in your browser, so there is no per-use cost to recover.
Which PDFs will not work?
Scanned or image-only PDFs, because they contain no text layer. A small number of PDFs also store text inside compressed object streams that browser-side extraction cannot reach; the tool detects both cases and tells you rather than returning gibberish.
Does it preserve tables?
Not as tables. Table cells come out as text in reading order, which is usually adequate for search and quoting but not for re-importing into a spreadsheet.
Can I use the extracted text commercially?
That depends on the document's licence, not on us. The tool imposes no terms on its output — we never see it.