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PDF to Text Extractor extracts text from PDFs using PDF.js's page.getTextContent() API — joins text items per page, computes word/character/page stats, and offers per-page tabs, copy to clipboard, and .txt download.
PDF to Text Extractor is a high-performance utility designed to help users streamline their workflow. Built with modern web technologies, it ensures fast processing times and high-quality outputs directly in your browser.
Extraction uses pdfjs.getDocument().promise → page.getTextContent() → items.map(i => i.str).join(' '). Only works on text-based PDFs (those with selectable text). Scanned image-only PDFs return no text — for those, the PDF OCR Extractor uses Tesseract.js on rendered page canvases.
Scanned PDFs are images. They contain no extractable text. Use our PDF OCR Extractor instead — it uses OCR to recognize text in images.
Basic text spacing is preserved, but rich formatting (fonts, colors, columns) is lost. For full layout preservation, use a PDF reader.