About This Tool
### Unlock Your PDF Data
PDFs are great for printing, but terrible for editing. Copying text from them often results in broken formatting or weird characters.
Our **PDF to Text Converter** uses a dual-engine approach to guarantee results:
1. **Native Extraction**: Instantly pulls text layers from digital PDFs.
2. **OCR (Optical Character Recognition)**: If the PDF is a scan (image-based), our AI reads the text for you.
### Privacy Guarantee
Most PDF tools upload your sensitive contracts to a cloud server. **We don't.**
This tool runs locally in your browser using WebAssembly. Your documents never leave your computer.
Key Features
- **Dual-Engine Technology**: Combines Native extraction with Tesseract OCR.
- **Works on Scans**: Extracts text even from flat images or photos of documents.
- **100% Private**: No server uploads. Perfect for legal or medical documents.
- **One-Click Copy**: Instantly grab all text for Word or Notion.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this work on scanned PDFs?
Yes! If no text layer is found, we automatically use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to read text from the images inside the PDF.
Is there a page limit?
No hard limit, but large documents (50+ pages) may check your browser's memory. Since it runs locally, performance depends on your device speed.
Is the formatting preserved?
We extract raw text. Paragraphs and line breaks are preserved, but complex layouts (columns, tables) are flattened into a single stream of text for easy copying.