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PDF to Text Converter — Free Online


CONVERT PDF to TXT ONLINE

1) Upload PDF file to convert

 

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Allowed file types: pdf, ps, xps, pcl, pxl, prn, eps, djvu

2) Set converting PDF to TXT options

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3) Get converted file

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How to convert PDF to TXT?

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💾 Upload Your File: Go to the site, click on «Upload File,» and select your PDF file.

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✍️ Set Conversion Options: Choose TXT as the output format and adjust any additional options if needed.

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Convert and Download: Click 👉«Download Converted File»👈 to get your TXT file.


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Convert PDF to TXT without Microsoft Office or any editor. Upload the document in your browser and download the TXT in seconds, on any device.
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Documents can include personal and business information. Your PDF upload is encrypted in transit with HTTPS/TLS and processed in data centers with multi-factor access control during the conversion to TXT.
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Ease of Use
Converting PDF to plain text online has never been so simple. Drop your .pdf and the converter extracts the full text — preserving UTF-8 encoding, paragraph breaks, and multi-column reading order — and delivers a clean .txt file in seconds. Works with regular PDFs, password-free protected documents, and scanned PDFs via built-in OCR. No Adobe Acrobat, no Python scripts required.
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The contents of your PDF are never read or reused. After the conversion to TXT, both files are deleted automatically from our servers. Privacy Policy.

 

PDF File

File extension .PDF
CategoryDocument File
DescriptionAdobe Systems Portable Document Format (PDF) format provides all the contents of a printed document in electronic form, including text and images, as well as technical details like links, scales, graphs, and interactive content.

You can open this file in free Acrobat Reader and scroll through the page or the entire document, which is generally one or more pages. The PDF format is used to save pre-designed periodicals, brochures, and flyers.

Associated programsAdobe Viewer
Ghostscript
Ghostview
Xpdf
CoolUtils PDF Viewer
Developed byAdobe Systems
MIME typeapplication/pdf
application/x-pdf
Useful linksMore detailed information on PDF files
Conversion typePDF to TXT

TXT File

File extension .TXT, .TEXT
CategoryDocument File
DescriptionTXT format is the simplest text file standard that doesn’t support formatting. Such file contains text characters, tab and line feed characters. Being outdated in functionality it has one major advantage - compact file size, comfortable for sharing, data export/import. It supports various charsets (DOS, WIN, ISO, KOI-8). The charset can be changed to make TXT file compatible with any text reader. The lack of formatting is solved by setting up format params in the reader program.
Associated programsNotepad
TextEdit
WordPad
Developed byVarious
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What users say

Rating PDF to TXT   5 star PDF to TXT   5.0 (2 votes)Rate this converter
5 star2024-12-28
I appreciate the speed and quality of the conversions. Brilliant!
Sophia Martinez
5 star2024-08-22
Fine and fast.
Javier Almeida
 

PDF to Text Converter — Frequently Asked Questions

How can I convert a PDF file to text?

Upload the PDF to the converter at the top of this page and click Convert. It decodes the font encoding, sorts the text objects into reading order, and writes everything into a plain UTF-8 .txt file you can download in seconds. Scanned pages go through OCR automatically.

Can ChatGPT convert PDF to text?

It can read a PDF you attach and retype or summarise what it finds, but it is not a converter: long documents get truncated, line breaks and layout are not preserved, tables are reflowed, and the model may paraphrase instead of copying. A converter extracts the text of every page verbatim, keeps the reading order, and hands back a file rather than a chat answer.

What is the best PDF to text converter?

It depends on the PDF. When the document already has a text layer, almost anything works, including the free pdftotext utility from the Poppler package on the command line. When the PDF is a scan, you need OCR: this converter has it built in, takes files up to 50 MB, and needs no installation or account. For whole folders of documents, the desktop Total PDF Converter does the same job offline.

How can I convert a PDF file to TXT for free?

This page is free — no signup, no watermark, no page cap, 50 MB per file. Upload the PDF, click Convert, download the .txt. Nothing is installed on your computer, and the uploaded file is deleted from the server after the conversion.

What encoding does the TXT file use?

UTF-8 without a byte order mark, which Notepad, VS Code, Python, grep and virtually every other text tool read correctly. Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew and CJK characters survive the conversion, and mixed-language documents are extracted in a single pass.

Can I extract text from a password-protected PDF?

A PDF that merely restricts printing or copying is processed normally. A PDF that asks for a password before it will open is encrypted, and it has to be unlocked in your PDF reader first — the converter does not bypass passwords.
 

 

Quick answer: Upload your PDF to the CoolUtils online converter above, click Convert, and download a plain .txt file seconds later. It maps every glyph to Unicode, keeps paragraph breaks and multi-column reading order, and runs OCR when the page is a scan. The output is UTF-8 text you can search, edit or index. Free, no install, no signup.

A PDF stores words as positioned glyphs rather than as a stream of sentences. That is why copy-paste out of a two-column report comes back scrambled, and why a scanned page yields nothing at all. Text extraction rebuilds the reading order and returns the whole document as one .txt file — no page cap, no watermark, and nothing left on the server after you download it.

Does it work on scanned PDFs?

Yes. A scanned PDF has no text layer at all, only a picture of the page, so the converter runs OCR (optical character recognition) on those pages and writes what it recognises into the .txt file. Accuracy is highest on clean scans at 300 DPI or above; a crooked phone photo of a page will need proofreading afterwards. A PDF that asks for a password before it opens has to be unlocked first.

Feature Online Converters CoolUtils Desktop Adobe Editor Other Software
Batch Conversion Limited ✅ Unlimited Manual only Limited
File Size Limit 1-5MB ✅ No limits System dependent Varies
Privacy & Security Upload required ✅ 100% offline ✅ Local only Varies
Conversion Speed Internet dependent ✅ Fast local processing Slow Medium
Advanced Options Basic ✅ Full customization Limited Basic
Cost Free/Premium One-time purchase Requires Office Subscription
Formatting Preservation Good ✅ Excellent Good Varies
Multiple Formats Support Limited ✅ 40+ formats Few formats Limited
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