PDF to text ready to edit.
All the text, in reading order, with a blank line between paragraphs. Table cells are separated by tabs, so they paste neatly into a spreadsheet.
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PDF only · up to 50 MB · up to 1000 pages
01How it works
How to convert a PDF to text file
- 01
Add a PDF
Drop the PDF you want to convert.
- 02
Convert
Select Convert. Text, styles and pictures are written into a text file.
- 03
Download
Download the text file and open it in your app.
Before you upload
- Accepts
- Limits
- Up to 50 MB per file and 1,000 pages, one file at a time
- Processing
- On PocketPDF's own servers. Files aren't passed to outside conversion services.
- Your files
- Only your account can download them, unless you create a share link. If you don't sign in they're deleted after 1 hour; once you do, they stay until you delete them (up to 1 GB).
- Price
- Free. Use the tool straight away, then sign in with Google to download.
02Questions
Common questions
Is formatting kept?
Plain text has no fonts or colours. Use PDF to Word to keep formatting.
What about scanned PDFs?
Pages that are pictures of text are read with OCR (text recognition), so you still get text you can edit.
03More tools
Works well with
PDF to Word
Turn a PDF into an editable Word document (DOCX).
PDF to PowerPoint
Turn PDF pages into PPTX slides you can edit.
PDF to Excel
Pull tables out of a PDF into an XLSX spreadsheet.
PDF to images
Save pages as JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF or TIFF.
PDF to RTF
Get a rich text document you can edit in almost any app.
PDF to Pages
Get a document that opens in Apple Pages.