md/convert

PDF to
text.

01Source
.pdf

Drop a PDF file anywhere on this page, or open one.

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02Output

Your text is converted on our server and deleted immediately. We don't store it.

Drop it.

PDF to text, explained

Pull all the text out of a PDF into a plain .txt file. Copying from a PDF viewer tends to break lines in the middle of sentences; here every paragraph comes out as one line, so the text flows again wherever you paste it.

What is converted, and how

Paragraphs
One line per paragraph, with a blank line between paragraphs.
Lists
Stay lists, with a dash or a number in front of each item.
Short lines
Addresses, table rows and similar lines keep their line breaks.
Encoding
UTF-8, so accents and non-Latin scripts come through as they are.

Limitations

  • Tables lose their grid: each row becomes a line with the cells separated by spaces.
  • Scanned PDFs are pictures of text without a text layer, and the converter doesn't do text recognition (OCR). Password-protected PDFs can't be read either.
  • At most 50 pages and 2 MB per PDF. Images, attachments, links and scripts in the PDF are ignored.

Tips

  • Want to keep lists and paragraphs as structure? PDF to Markdown keeps the same text with light markup.
  • The file is converted in an isolated, temporary workspace on our server and deleted as soon as the result has been sent back. It is never stored or logged.

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