PDF to Text Converter

Runs in your browser — your files are never uploaded.

Pull the text content out of a PDF — useful for copying quotes, searching content, or feeding text into another tool. Runs entirely in your browser using pdf.js, the same PDF engine that powers Firefox’s built-in viewer.

How to convert PDF to Text

  1. 1

    Drop your PDF onto the box, or click to choose one.

  2. 2

    OkConverter extracts the text from every page locally.

  3. 3

    Click “Download” to save the extracted text.

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Frequently asked questions

Does this work on scanned PDFs?+

No — this extracts text that’s already embedded in the PDF. A scanned document with no embedded text layer (a photo of a page saved as PDF) needs OCR, which this tool doesn’t perform.

Does it preserve formatting?+

No. Output is plain text with pages separated by blank lines — layout, fonts, and columns aren’t preserved.

Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?+

No. Text extraction runs entirely in your browser — nothing is sent to a server, which matters for contracts and other sensitive documents.

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