Pull the text out of a PDF into a plain .txt file. Works on documents that contain real text; a scan is a picture and has no text to pull.
The conversion runs entirely in your browser. Your files stay on your device from start to finish, there is no server copy, and nothing is stored once you leave the page. That is true for every tool on FileFlip.
Sometimes you do not want the document, you want the words in it. Pasting from a PDF viewer tends to bring line breaks and column order along with it. This tool pulls the text out into a plain .txt file, working out where lines and paragraphs end from the position of the words on the page.
One document at a time.
Leave the field empty for the whole document, or list pages and ranges to take a section.
A short marker before each page is useful when you need to point back at where something came from, and noise when you just want the prose.
Plain UTF-8 text, so accented characters and other scripts survive.
A scanned page is a photograph. There are no words in the file to extract, only pixels that look like words. Reading those needs optical character recognition, which this tool does not do, and the tool will tell you rather than hand you an empty file.
Tables come out as loose runs of text, and a two column page is read in whatever order the words were written into the file. Simple prose comes out cleanly; complex layouts do not.
A PDF stores glyphs at coordinates and has no idea what a paragraph is. A large vertical gap is treated as a paragraph break and a small one as a line break, which is right most of the time.