Free tool
PDF to Text
Pull the text out of a PDF or Word file exactly as it is written, ready to copy, search or paste somewhere else — plus a short description of what the document is.
- · The document's own text, unaltered and copyable
- · Works with PDF, DOCX and TXT up to 8 MB and 40 pages
- · Nothing to install, no watermark, no email address
- · Up to 8 MB and 40 pages per document
Drop your document here
PDF · DOCX · TXT · JPG · PNG — up to 8 MB and 40 pages
Only upload documents you are authorized to process. Avoid unnecessary highly sensitive personal information.
Free initial results · No account required to try · One-time payment · No subscription
How people use it
Quoting from a document
Copy an exact clause or paragraph instead of retyping it from a page image.
Searching a long file
Get the whole text in one block so you can search it with your browser.
Moving content between tools
Paste the text into a document, a spreadsheet note or your own writing.
Checking what an AI tool will see
See exactly the text any analysis is based on, before you rely on it.
What happens after your free result
The extraction is literal: it is your document's text, not a rewrite. If the file is a scanned image with no text layer, the pages are read as images instead, and anything genuinely illegible is marked rather than guessed.
A full analysis of one document costs €4.99 as a one-time payment, or €19.99 for five. It is only offered when your document genuinely supports one.
PDF to Text questions
- Is PDF to Text free?
- Yes. The result the page promises is delivered in full, with no payment and no account. The published limits apply: 8 MB per file, 40 pages, and 3 free questions per document.
- Which file types work?
- PDF, DOCX and TXT, text pasted directly, phone photos (JPG, PNG) and scanned image-only PDFs, whose pages are read as images. Anything genuinely illegible is marked rather than guessed.
- Can I get the result in another language than the document?
- Yes. Choose your results language before uploading. A German document can be processed and the result returned in English, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese or Romanian.
- Does it work on scanned PDFs?
- Yes. When a PDF has no text layer, its pages are read as images instead. Words that are genuinely illegible are marked as unreadable rather than guessed, so you can retake or rescan that page.
- Is the layout preserved?
- The text is extracted in reading order with paragraph breaks kept. Columns, tables and page furniture may flatten, because a text file has no layout.