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PDF Text Extractor
Extract selectable text with page boundaries and reading-order choices.
- 1Select files
- 2Set options
- 3Get results
This tool processes selected files in your browser.
Accepted: application/pdf, .pdf. Desktop cap 100 MiB per file.
How it works
- Choose an unencrypted PDF.
- Choose reading order or content-stream order.
- Download TXT or JSON. Scan-only pages warn that OCR is a different tool.
Files stay in this tab. No upload.
Selectable text only. This is not OCR.
Supported inputs and outputs
PDF in. text/plain or application/json out.
Example
A two-column page in reading order is A C B D; content-stream order is A B C D.
Questions and answers
Will it read a scan?
No. Empty text-content pages suggest OCR instead of inventing text.
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