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PDF Text Extractor

Pull the text out of uncompressed PDF files without installing anything.

Extract text from a PDF

Characters found: —
Text blocks: —
Compressed streams: —
Only uncompressed content streams can be read without a full PDF library.

How to use the PDF Text Extractor

  1. Choose a PDF file that contains selectable text.
  2. Click Extract text to read the content streams.
  3. Copy the extracted text with the Copy button.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about the free online pdf text extractor.

Choose the file, click Extract text and the uncompressed text strings are listed in the box, ready to copy.
Most PDFs compress their content streams with FlateDecode, and this browser-only tool cannot decompress them.
Files written without stream compression, including the PDFs produced by the Text to PDF and SVG to PDF tools on this site.
It is an approximation. Reading order and spacing come from the raw operators, so columns may run together.
No. A scan is a picture of a page, so there is no text layer to read without optical character recognition.
Partly. Simple Latin encodings decode well, but embedded subset fonts with custom maps need a full PDF parser.
No. The file never leaves your device, and the extraction happens in your browser tab.
Yes, the extractor is completely free with no account, no limits and no watermark.

Last updated: October 10, 2026