Extract text from a PDF
Pull the digital text layer out of a PDF. Scanned pages are reported as empty.

Details
This copies the text that is already in the PDF. A scan of paper has no text layer, so those pages are reported as empty. It is not optical character recognition. At most 40 pages are read.

Category: PDFs
Page: /tools/extract-pdf-text
Text: /tools/extract-pdf-text.txt

Limits
This is not OCR. A scan of paper will not become words. At most 40 pages are read.

Steps
1. Drop a digital PDF.
2. Read the extract.
3. Copy it or download a .txt file.

Questions
Why is a page blank?
That page has no text objects. It is probably a scan or a drawing.

Will it make a Word file?
No. You get plain text. Layout and tables are not reconstructed.

Nothing is uploaded. Closing the tab drops the file.
Text is read in the tab.