PDF to Markdown
Turn a PDF into Markdown with headings, bullet and numbered lists, and paragraphs joined back together.
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PDF to Text
Extract the text of a PDF as a plain .txt file, either as running text or laid out like the page.
- Runs in your browser
- Batch
- Works on mobile
- In: PDF
- Out: TXT
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About PDF to Text
The text layer is read page by page and rebuilt into lines. "Keep the layout" lines columns up with spaces, which is what you want for an invoice, a statement or a table; leaving it off gives clean running text for pasting into a document or an AI tool.
A scan has no text layer - only a picture of one - so it comes out empty. The tool says so and points you at PDF OCR.
How to use it
- 1Add one or more PDFs.
- 2Turn "Keep the layout" on for tables and statements, off for prose.
- 3Run it and download the .txt file.
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