Extract text from PDF files — fast, free, and private (processed in your browser)
Files are processed locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded to any server
Your PDF is processed entirely in your browser using PDF.js. No file is uploaded to any server. Your data stays on your device.
This tool extracts text from text-based PDFs. Scanned documents (images) require OCR which is not supported here.
PDF 1.0 (1993) to PDF 2.0 (2017). PDF/A for archiving, PDF/X for printing, PDF/E for engineering, PDF/UA for accessibility.
Modern PDFs support forms, annotations, digital signatures, 3D content, multimedia embedding, and JavaScript.
Simply upload your PDF file by clicking the upload area or dragging and dropping. Our tool uses Mozilla's PDF.js library to extract all readable text content directly in your browser. For scanned PDFs that contain images instead of text, you would need OCR software.
PDF/A is an ISO-standardized version of PDF designed for long-term digital preservation of documents. It restricts features like encryption, external font references, and JavaScript to ensure documents remain readable and reproducible decades into the future.
Scanned PDFs contain images of text rather than actual text data. You need OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software like Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY FineReader, or free tools like Tesseract to recognize and extract text from scanned documents.