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PDF Text Extractor

Extract selectable text with page boundaries and reading-order choices.

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Files stay on this device. Nothing is uploaded.PDF

  1. 1

    Choose PDF

    Pick PDF from your device or drop them on the page. Type is checked from the file’s bytes, not its name.

  2. 2

    Set options

    Choose reading order or content-stream order.

  3. 3

    Save PDF

    Processing happens in this tab. You download a new copy; your originals are never changed.

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How to use this tool

How it works

  1. Choose an unencrypted PDF.
  2. Choose reading order or content-stream order.
  3. 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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