You've got a PDF with important text. But you can't copy it — either the PDF has restrictions, or it's a scan, or you just want to extract the text without the formatting.
When to use PDF to Text
- Content repurposing: Extract text to use in a blog post, presentation, or email.
- Text analysis: Analyze the text for keywords, frequency, or sentiment.
- Translation: Extract text to paste into a translation tool.
- Accessibility: Make text available for screen readers.
How to extract text
- Open PDFly's PDF to Text tool.
- 上传您的 PDF。
- Click process — the tool extracts all the text.
- Download the .txt file or copy the text directly.
扫描版 PDF 怎么办？
If your PDF is a scan, you'll need OCR first to recognize the text.
What gets extracted?
- Text: All the words from the PDF, in reading order.
- Structure: Paragraph breaks and basic line breaks are preserved.
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Open PDF to Text Tool常见问题
Does PDF to Text work with scanned PDFs?
If the PDF is a scan, you'll need OCR first.
Will the text be in the correct order?
The tool tries to extract text in reading order. For simple documents, it works well.
Can I extract text from password-protected PDFs?
您需要先解锁该 PDF。