Extract all the text from any PDF file — instantly, for free, right in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
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100% client-side. Your file never leaves your browser.
Your PDF is processed entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to any server.
Get results in seconds. No waiting, no queue, no account required.
Runs on any modern browser — desktop, tablet, or mobile. No software to install.
Plain text is the most portable format there is: every editor, script, database, and language model accepts it. Extracting it from a PDF is usually the first step of a bigger job.
Paste clean text from reports or papers into Claude, ChatGPT, or your own AI agent without PDF noise.
Get the text out of PDFs where selection is disabled or copy-paste produces garbage.
Produce raw text for sentiment analysis, entity extraction, classification, or search indexing.
Pull passages from ebooks, contracts, or papers into your notes, essays, or documentation.
Drag and drop or click to select a PDF file from your device. It is read locally — never uploaded.
The engine reads the embedded text layer of every page and reassembles it in reading order.
Copy the extracted text to your clipboard or download it as a .txt file.
No. The entire extraction happens in your browser using JavaScript (PDF.js). Your file never leaves your device — safe for contracts, payslips, medical documents, or anything confidential.
Digital PDFs contain a text layer: every character is stored with its position and font. The tool reads that layer page by page and reassembles the characters into lines and paragraphs in reading order. No screenshots, no OCR guessing — it is the exact text embedded in the file.
Some PDFs disable copying, and even when copying works, viewers often mangle line breaks, hyphenation, and paragraph order. Extracting the full text layer at once gives you a cleaner result, especially for long documents.
No — a scanned PDF is a photo of a page, with no text layer to read. Scanned documents need OCR, which is available through the ParseDocu API for both scans and photos of documents.
Plain text has no layout by definition: you get the content in reading order, without fonts, columns, or tables. If you need structure to survive extraction, use the PDF to Markdown tool (keeps headings and lists) or the PDF to JSON tool (keeps positions and coordinates).
No hard limit. Because everything runs locally, speed depends on your device — most PDFs process in under a second, and even 100+ page documents only take a few seconds.
Yes — free, unlimited, no account, no watermark. It is our way of showing what ParseDocu does before you try the API.
For batch extraction, use the ParseDocu API: send documents via a single POST request or connect Zapier, Make, or n8n for no-code pipelines. The free tier includes 1,000 credits.
The ParseDocu API extracts text and Markdown from digital and scanned PDFs at scale — via REST, Zapier, Make, or n8n. Start with 1,000 free credits.
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