PDF to Text Converter

Advanced PDF text extraction with page selection, metadata extraction, image extraction, and multiple output formats.

PDF Input
Upload a PDF file or fetch from URL

Click to upload or drag and drop

PDF files only

Text Output
Extracted text from your PDF
Page Selection
Choose which pages to extract text from
Extraction Settings
Customize how text is extracted from the PDF

Processing Options

Text Filters

About This Tool

The PDF to Text Converter is an advanced, professional-grade tool that extracts text from PDF documents with unprecedented control and precision. Unlike basic converters, this tool offers comprehensive page selection, intelligent text processing, metadata extraction, image extraction, and multiple output formats to meet any workflow requirement.

With granular page selection, you can extract text from all pages, specific page ranges (e.g., pages 5-10), or individual pages (e.g., 1, 3, 7, 12). The tool intelligently preserves document formatting, merges hyphenated words split across lines, removes headers and footers, strips page numbers, and maintains paragraph structure for maximum readability.

Advanced features include automatic metadata extraction (title, author, subject, keywords, creation date), image extraction from PDF pages, multiple output formats (plain text, Markdown, JSON), and comprehensive text filtering options. Perfect for document analysis, content extraction, data mining, accessibility conversion, and professional document processing. All processing happens locally in your browser using PDF.js for complete privacy and security.

Features

Advanced Page Selection

Extract from all pages, specific ranges (5-10), or individual pages (1, 3, 7) with full control.

Metadata Extraction

Automatically extracts title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer, and dates from PDF metadata.

Image Extraction

Extracts all images embedded in the PDF and allows batch download as PNG files.

Multiple Output Formats

Export as plain text (.txt), Markdown (.md), or structured JSON with metadata and statistics.

Format Preservation

Intelligently preserves document layout, line breaks, and paragraph structure using position data.

Hyphen Merging

Automatically merges words split across lines with hyphens (e.g., "docu-ment" becomes "document").

Header/Footer Removal

Removes repetitive headers and footers from each page for cleaner text output.

Page Number Stripping

Detects and removes page numbers in various formats (1, Page 1, -1-, etc.) automatically.

Text Filtering

Remove specific words, numbers, punctuation, special characters, or emojis with flexible filters.

Whitespace Control

Trim excess whitespace and remove extra blank lines for clean, professional output.

Real-Time Statistics

Shows file size, page count, character count, word count, line count, and extracted image count.

URL Fetching

Fetch and process PDFs directly from URLs without downloading them first.

Batch Processing

Process multiple pages simultaneously with real-time progress indication.

Copy to Clipboard

Quickly copy extracted text with a single click for easy pasting elsewhere.

Download Options

Export text in your chosen format and download all extracted images in one click.

100% Client-Side

All processing happens in your browser using PDF.js - your files never leave your device.

Frequently Asked Questions