Extract & Copy Text from PDF — Free · Download as TXT

Pull all text from any PDF. Built-in OCR for scanned pages. Search, copy, download as TXT. 100% in your browser.

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Extract Text from Any PDF

Need to grab text from a PDF? Creatorr's text extraction tool parses every page using pdf.js and gives you the complete text content with word count, search, and export options.

Features

  • Full text extraction — All selectable text from every page, preserving reading order.
  • Search — Find specific words or phrases with highlighted results.
  • Word & character count — Instant stats for essays, reports, and documents.
  • Copy — One-click copy to clipboard.
  • Download — Save as a .txt file for use anywhere.
  • OCR for scanned pages — Automatically detects image-only pages and uses Tesseract.js OCR to extract text. Supports 12 languages.

How OCR Works

If a page has no embedded text (scanned/image PDF), the tool renders it as an image and runs browser-based OCR using Tesseract.js. The OCR engine (~15 MB) loads only when needed and is cached for future use. OCR pages are labelled [OCR] in the output. Accuracy depends on scan quality — clean, high-resolution scans work best.

Common Use Cases

  • Research and academics — Copy quotes, citations, and data from journal articles and textbooks without retyping.
  • Data entry — Pull structured text from invoices, receipts, and forms into spreadsheets or databases.
  • Content repurposing — Extract blog drafts, eBook chapters, or newsletter copy from published PDFs for editing.
  • Legal discovery — Search and extract key phrases from scanned legal filings using built-in OCR.
  • Accessibility — Convert image-only PDFs to selectable text so screen readers can process them.

Tips for Best Results

  • For scanned PDFs, use high-resolution scans (300 DPI or above) for the best OCR accuracy.
  • Select the correct OCR language before extraction — mismatched languages reduce accuracy.
  • Use the search bar to jump to specific terms in long documents.
  • After extracting, use TXT to PDF to convert the cleaned text back into a new PDF.

Privacy

All processing happens locally in your browser. Your PDF is never uploaded to any server. The tool uses pdf.js, the same engine that powers Firefox's built-in PDF viewer. OCR models are downloaded once and cached — no data leaves your device.

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