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Extract the text layer, page by page.

Use PDF.js to read existing selectable text and download one UTF-8 text file with a clear separator for every page.

Drop one PDF to begin

The file is checked and processed in local Web Workers.

This tool does not run OCR. Image-only scans may produce empty page sections and need a separate OCR workflow. Reading order follows the PDF text layer and can differ from the visual layout.

Text extraction happens in PDF.js workers without sending the document anywhere.

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