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Pull the text out of a PDF and download it as a .txt file — handy for copying or editing. Is it a scan without a text layer? Then we point you to OCR (text recognition).

Drag one PDF here
or click to choose a file

The extracted text — check here that everything came through properly
No text layer found — this looks like a scan.

Use OCR to have the text recognised (Pro feature, AI cost per page).

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