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Extract text from a PDF

Choose a PDF to collect its embedded text. This tool does not perform OCR on scanned pages or text stored only as images.

No file bytes are sent to Lutrakit.

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Extract the text already stored in a PDF

Turn a PDF's embedded text into a plain text file for searching, quoting or further editing. This is text extraction, not recognition of words in scanned pictures.

How to use it

  1. Select a PDF that contains a text layer.
  2. Enable page separators if you need to identify the source page of each passage; they are off initially. Choose the output filename.
  3. Extract and download the TXT file, then compare a sample paragraph, columns and special characters with the PDF.

Example

Starting point
A PDF with the extractable text Hello on page 1 and World on page 2, with page separators disabled.
What to expect
A TXT file containing Hello, a blank line, then World. Page-separator mode adds numbered page headings instead of relying only on blank lines.

Before you start

  • The input limit is 100 MiB. An image-only scan needs OCR elsewhere before this tool can extract its words.
  • TXT does not preserve fonts, pictures or table layout. Reading order depends on the PDF's text structure; review columns and unusual character encoding before reusing the result.