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Convert PDF to Text

Extract the plain text content of a PDF into a downloadable .txt file.

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About the PDF to Text tool

100% private: This tool runs entirely inside your web browser. Your files are never uploaded to a server — they never leave your device. That makes it faster, and it means your documents stay completely confidential.

How to convert PDF to text

Upload your PDF and Tallywise reads the text layer from every page, then bundles it into a single .txt file you can download or paste elsewhere.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this work on scanned PDFs?

Only if the PDF already has a text layer (for example, one created from OCR). Purely scanned images with no embedded text will produce empty output.

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