PDF to text
Extract selectable PDF text to TXT or Markdown locally.
Features
- Extract selectable PDF text to TXT or Markdown locally.
- Review the output before downloading.
- Continue with the result in the PDF workspace.
How to use this tool
- Choose local input files within the displayed limits.
- Choose TXT or Markdown and extract the existing selectable text; run OCR first for scanned pages.
- Apply, preview and save the result.
Good to know
This tool is free without sign-up, with unlimited processing and exports within the displayed input limits.
- Original files remain unchanged. Files and passwords are never uploaded.
Privacy and local processing
This tool processes your input in your browser. Source files and text are not uploaded to a FormatOwl processing server. Advanced-tool access and trial balances are checked online using tool IDs, file types, sizes and page counts. Free tools do not require account authorization. Save the results you need before leaving or refreshing the page.
Processing engines, preview resources or fonts may be downloaded from this site when needed. These downloads do not upload your source content.
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