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# PDF to text

Copy all the text out of a PDF as plain text, Markdown, or HTML.

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or choose from your device. Nothing is uploaded.
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No PDF handy? Try a sampleHow it worksThis copies the text that is stored inside the PDF. Scanned pages are pictures with no stored text, so they come out empty. Columns, tables, and fonts are not kept, only the words in reading order.

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