Free PDF to Text Converter

How to extract text from a PDF

1. 1Sign up with email or Google and confirm your email address — 30 credits are added on verification.
2. 2Upload your PDF (up to 10 MB free, 50 MB on Pro and Annual) or point the converter at a public URL.
3. 3Copy or download the result. The output is Markdown, which is plain text — it pastes into any editor, and the structure (headings, lists, tables) comes with it.

Why not just copy and paste?

• Copying a PDF gives you line breaks in random places and hyphenated words split across lines.
• Headers and footers repeat on every page and end up in the middle of your text.
• Tables collapse into columns of whitespace-separated numbers.
• Scanned pages give you nothing at all — there is no text layer to copy.
• Multi-column layouts paste in the wrong order.

An OCR-backed converter fixes all five, which is why "just copy it" stops working the moment you have more than one document.

What free actually means here

One credit is one processed page. Credits from a purchase never expire; subscription credits refresh each cycle.

What the output looks like

You get Markdown — plain text with light structure. Headings carry their level, lists stay lists, tables come back as Markdown tables, and formulas stay in LaTeX. If you want structure-free text, strip the markers in one line:

import re

def strip_markdown(md: str) -> str:
    md = re.sub(r"^#{1,6}\s*", "", md, flags=re.M)   # headings
    md = re.sub(r"\*\*|__", "", md)                  # bold
    md = re.sub(r"^\s*[-*+]\s*", "", md, flags=re.M)  # bullets
    return md.strip()

Privacy

Files are uploaded to our own storage, converted, and kept for your conversion history. We do not use your documents for advertising or for training AI models.

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