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Extract Text from PDF
Pull all the readable text out of a PDF and download it as a plain .txt file.
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How to extract text from a PDF
Upload a PDF and the tool reads every text run out of the document in reading order, then hands you a UTF-8 .txt file. Optional page markers let you trace any passage back to the page it came from. Because extraction happens in your browser, even confidential documents stay on your machine. Note that scanned pages contain images rather than text, so there is nothing to extract from them.
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