PDF to Text - Extract Text to TXT Free

Upload your PDF and download the extracted text as a .txt file. The layout is simplified to plain text.

Yes. The converter is free with no account required.

No. TXT is plain text, so fonts, colors, and images are not preserved, only the text content.

Scanned PDFs are images, so text extraction needs OCR. Use the Image to Text tool for scanned pages.

Yes. Conversion happens in your browser and your file never leaves your device.

Copying by hand means selecting pages one at a time and fixing broken lines as you go. A PDF to text converter extracts every page in a single pass and saves it as one .txt file, ready to search, edit, quote or reuse anywhere.

Plain text is easy to reuse: paste it into notes, a word counter, an editor or a search tool, and find any word instantly. Researchers, students and writers often extract text from reports and ebooks to highlight, summarise or analyse the content faster.

That usually means the PDF is a scanned image, or its text is laid out in columns that read across instead of down. If you cannot select text in a normal PDF reader, you need OCR instead — try the Image to Text tool.

Turn on the page-break option and the .txt file inserts a marker such as --- Page N --- between pages. Those markers make a long document much easier to navigate, quote accurately and match back to the original PDF when you check something.

Yes. A plain text file is tiny, opens in every editor and operating system, and never needs special software. It keeps only the words, not fonts or images, which makes it perfect for archives, notes and feeding text into other tools.