Extract text from PDF free online. Convert PDF to TXT with OCR for scanned PDFs. No signup, no watermark, no daily limits. Up to 200MB. Works on all devices.
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Yes. The converter uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to detect and extract text from scanned PDFs and image-based documents where the text is stored as an image rather than machine-readable characters. Upload your scanned PDF and download a TXT file with the text accurately extracted — ready to edit, search, and use in any application.
A TXT file contains pure plain text with no formatting, fonts, images, or layout — just the raw characters. Use TXT when you need to import text into a database, process it with a script or program, feed it into an AI or NLP application, use it with a screen reader or text-to-speech tool, or open it in a code editor for processing. For documents you want to read and share with formatting preserved, use Word or PDF instead.
Yes. All pages of your PDF are processed and the extracted text from every page is compiled into a single TXT file in reading order. Page breaks are indicated in the output so you can identify where each page begins. There is no page limit — a 500-page PDF extracts to one complete TXT file.
Yes. The converter is completely free with zero watermarks, no added text, no promotional content inserted, and no account required. Your TXT file contains only the text extracted from your PDF — nothing else.
Yes. The PDF to TXT converter is used for extracting contract text for databases, processing legal documents for eDiscovery workflows, pulling financial data from PDF reports for analysis, converting research papers to plain text for citation tools, and preparing PDF content for content management systems. All processing is done on secure encrypted servers and files are deleted immediately after conversion.
You can upload PDF files up to 200MB for free with no account required. This covers large multi-page documents, scanned archives, and lengthy reports. Most competing free tools cap uploads at 5 to 25MB on their free plans.
PDF files store text in a fixed-position layout system rather than flowing text. When you manually copy text from a PDF, the copy includes position-based line breaks, hyphenation artifacts, and spacing characters that break the text flow. Our converter extracts text in proper reading order without these artifacts, producing clean paragraphs that can be imported into any application without manual cleanup.
Yes. The converter works directly in any browser, making it accessible from any environment. For automated or high-volume extraction, the extracted TXT files can be downloaded and processed by Python scripts, shell commands, or any data pipeline that works with plain text. The clean output format requires minimal preprocessing for most data science and development use cases.
Yes. Files are uploaded over an encrypted HTTPS connection, processed on secure servers, and automatically deleted after your conversion completes. We never store, read, share, or access your document content beyond the extraction process. This applies to confidential business documents, legal files, and personal records.
The converter supports all common PDF types including native text PDFs where text is machine-readable, scanned PDFs where pages are stored as images (processed via OCR), mixed PDFs containing both text and scanned image pages, password-protected PDFs if you provide the password, and multi-page PDFs of any length. Files from Adobe Acrobat, Word exports, Google Docs exports, scanner software, and any other PDF source are all supported.