PDF to Text
Extract plain text from a PDF, free and private.
Drag & drop files here, or click to select
How to Convert PDF to Text Online
Upload the PDF you want to extract text from.
Click "Extract Text" — your browser reads every page locally.
Review the extracted text in the preview box.
Copy it to your clipboard or download it as a .txt file.
Why Use SonuPDF for PDF to Text?
Real Text Extraction
Pulls the PDF's actual embedded text — not an image render — so results are accurate and instant.
Copy or Download
Copy the extracted text straight to your clipboard, or download it as a plain .txt file.
Page Markers Optional
Add "--- Page N ---" separators to keep track of where each page starts, or turn them off for a clean stream of text.
100% In-Browser
Your PDF is read entirely on your device. Nothing is uploaded to a server.
Frequently Asked Questions
Only if the scan already has a text layer. For image-only scans with no selectable text, use our OCR / Cleanup Scans tool first to recognize the text, then extract it here.
It preserves reading order and line breaks as best it can, but complex layouts like multi-column pages or tables may not extract in a perfectly readable order — that's a limitation of plain text, not of the tool.
No. Text extraction runs entirely in your browser using pdf.js. Your file never leaves your device.
No hard limit — it depends on your device’s available memory, since everything runs locally.