# PDF to plain text

Copy all the words out of a PDF. Extract the text from a PDF. Free to use. No sign-up. Your files never leave your device.

Use it here: https://pannapdf.app/pdf-to-text/

Convert a PDF to text for free. Extract all the words from a PDF so you can copy them or save them as a TXT file. For a scanned PDF, make it searchable first.

Also known as: PDF to TXT, extract text from PDF, PDF to text converter, copy text from PDF, PDF text extractor.

## How it works

1. Choose the PDF.
2. Press "Get the words".
3. Copy the words from the box, or save them as a text file.

## Questions people ask

### It says there are no words in my PDF.

Then the PDF is a scan or a photo, which is a picture of words. Use "Make a scan searchable" to read them.

### The words came out in a strange order.

That can happen with pages that have columns or tables.

## About Panna

Every tool runs inside the visitor's own browser. Files are never uploaded; they do not leave the phone or computer. There is no sign-up and no charge, and the site adds no watermark of its own to the files. The site can be shown in 19 languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese, Maithili, Nepali, Sindhi, Konkani, Dogri, Sanskrit.

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