What this tool does
This tool takes the text out of a PDF and rebuilds it as an editable document. Lines are joined back into paragraphs, larger text becomes headings, and each page can start on a new page, so the result is easy to edit in Word, Google Docs, Pages or LibreOffice.
Word or plain text
Choose Word document for a .docx file with proper headings and paragraphs. Choose Plain text when you only need the words, for example to paste into another app, search through, or feed into a script.
What is kept
The text, its reading order, paragraphs and headings are kept. Pictures, tables and exact page layout are not recreated, because a PDF stores them as positioned shapes rather than as an editable structure. For documents where the layout matters most, keep the PDF and copy the text you need from here.
Scanned PDFs
A scanned PDF is a picture of each page, so it contains no real text to convert. If that is the case, the tool tells you, and our scanned PDF to text tool can read the words from the page images instead.
Privacy
Your files never leave this device. The PDF is opened by your browser, the document is built in its memory, and the download comes straight from there. Nothing is uploaded.
Questions
Is there a page limit?
No set limit. Long documents of several hundred pages convert in seconds on most computers.
Can it open password-protected PDFs?
Not PDFs that need a password to open. PDFs that open freely but restrict editing usually convert fine.