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Extract Text from a PDF, Page by Page
Pull the words out of a typed PDF into a plain text file, so you can paste them into your notes or a document.
Use the Extract Text from PDF tool
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- Your file stays in your browser tab. We never see it.
- No account, no watermark and no limit on files.
- Works on phones as well as laptops.
What the Extract Text from PDF tool does
Copying from a PDF often drags in strange line breaks, page numbers and broken words. Extracting the text page by page gives you a clean file to search, quote from or paste into your own notes.
The text comes out as plain words, in reading order, labelled by page, so you can find where a quote came from.
How to use it in four steps
- Open the Extract text tool and choose your PDF.
- Press Extract text.
- Read the preview, page by page.
- Download the .txt file.
How students use it
- Collect quotes from a journal article, with page numbers for your referencing.
- Search a long report for a keyword in a plain file.
- Move text from a PDF handout into your lecture notes.
- Pull your own text out of a PDF when you have lost the original document.
Good to know
- Scanned pages are pictures, so there is no text to extract. This tool does not read images.
- Copy only for your own study and always credit the source. Quoting a source without a reference is plagiarism.
- Tables and columns may come out in a different order from how they look.
Need more than a tool?
These tools handle your files, not the work inside them. If you want feedback on a draft, TutorSuite offers referencing help. You can also see the rest of our PDF tools and other free study tools.
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Extract Text from PDF — your questions
Why is the extracted text empty?
The PDF is probably a scan or a photo. Those are images, which this tool cannot read.
Does it keep page numbers?
Yes. The text is labelled page by page, which helps with referencing.
Can I turn the text into a Word document?
Yes. Use our PDF to Word tool to get an editable .docx file that keeps the page layout, or download the text here and paste it into Word or Google Docs.
Is my file uploaded?
No. It is processed in your browser.
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