Extract Text from PDF pulls the words out of a document as plain text you can copy, edit, or paste elsewhere — quoting a clause from a contract, repurposing a report's paragraphs into a new document, or feeding the content into another tool without retyping it.

It reads the PDF's text layer — the actual characters stored in the file — and hands them back as text, so a digitally created PDF (exported from a word processor, browser, or design app) extracts cleanly. Everything runs in your browser; the document isn't uploaded to pull its text.

One limitation to know up front: a scanned or photographed PDF is really an image of a page, with no text layer to read. Extraction returns little or nothing for those. To get words out of a scan, run it through OCR first with the image-to-text tool, which recognizes characters in a picture.