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Convert PDF to TXT
The words in a PDF need to be fed into a script, a search index, a spreadsheet or an LLM without any of the formatting.
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Scans with no text layer are read with OCR, on your device. The first run downloads the recognition engine once, then works offline.
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What actually changes
PDF and TXT are not the same picture in two wrappers.
Only characters come out. Fonts, positions, images, tables and page furniture are all discarded, leaving a plain text stream in the reading order the extractor inferred.
Worth knowing first
Reading order is inferred, not stored, so two-column academic papers commonly come out with lines from both columns interleaved. Headers, footers and page numbers land inline in the middle of the text too. A scan with no text layer is rejected with a message saying exactly that, rather than returning an empty file.
Questions
PDF to TXT, answered
What if my PDF is a scan?
There is no text layer to extract, so OCR has to run. Set the OCR mode to auto and it falls back automatically.
Why are words running together?
PDF stores glyph positions, not spaces. Extraction has to infer word boundaries from gaps, and tight kerning or unusual fonts fool it.
Can I get the text of just one page?
Yes, give a page range.
How to convert PDF to TXT
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Plain Text is lossless, so nothing is thrown away in the conversion.
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Instant, because the file never went anywhere. Nothing expires, since nothing was stored.