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PDF to Text Converter
Extract text content from PDF files. Convert your PDF documents to plain text format.
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About PDF to Text Converter Tool
Our PDF to Text Converter tool allows you to extract text content from PDF files quickly and easily. This browser-based tool processes your files locally, ensuring your documents never leave your computer, providing security and privacy for your sensitive information.
Features:
- Extract text from PDF documents
- Maintain page separation in extracted text
- Copy extracted text to clipboard
- Download text as a TXT file
- Works directly in your browser with no installation needed
- Secure processing with no file uploads to external servers
- Simple drag-and-drop interface
How to Use:
- Upload your PDF file using the drag-and-drop area or file browser
- Click "Extract Text" to process the document
- View the extracted text in the preview area
- Copy the text to your clipboard or download it as a TXT file
Use Cases:
- Extract content from research papers for citation or analysis
- Convert PDF reports into editable text for further processing
- Extract text from scanned documents (with OCR capabilities in the PDF)
- Extract data from PDF forms and invoices
- Make PDF content searchable by converting it to text
- Extract text for translation services
Limitations:
- The tool cannot extract text from images within PDFs without OCR
- Some PDF formatting (tables, columns, etc.) may not be preserved in the plain text output
- Password-protected or encrypted PDFs cannot be processed
- Very large files may take longer to process
- Documents with complex layouts may have text extracted in a different order than visually appears in the PDF
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