The tool extracts all textual content from a PDF file and saves it into a plain TXT document without any formatting. For regular digital PDFs, up to 180 pages are processed, while for scanned documents, text recognition is performed only on the first 25 pages.
When this is useful
An accountant needs to quickly pull all numerical data from a large report for analysis in a notepad, and formatting only gets in the way. Or a student needs to extract text from a PDF lecture to listen to it using a screen reader program, which works better with plain text.
Step-by-step instructions
- Go to the tool and upload the source PDF file, ensuring its size does not exceed 20 megabytes for free usage.
- No additional settings are required, so start the conversion immediately.
- After processing is complete, download the resulting TXT file to your device.
How to verify the result
Open the resulting text file in any editor and verify that all necessary data has been extracted. If you see unreadable characters or emptiness instead of text from scans, remember that recognition is limited to the first 25 pages, and the remaining scanned pages will be ignored.
Important limitations
The main difference between this tool and OCR is that it does not preserve any visual layout, images, or tables — only raw text. Also, keep the limit in mind: for files with scanned images, only the first 25 pages are fully processed, even if the source document is longer.