PDF to text

Extract text from a PDF

This reads the text already stored in the PDF, so it is fast and exact, but a scanned page has none until you run OCR PDF. Markdown marks headings with # signs, HTML gives a web page with a section for each PDF page, and JSON lists pages, headings and paragraphs with their positions for use in your own code.

  1. Choose a PDF.
  2. Pick Plain text, Markdown, Web page (HTML) or Data file (JSON).
  3. Select Extract text and download the file.

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