PDF to Text
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How to extract text from a PDF file online:
- To start, drop your PDF file or upload it from your device or your cloud storage service. Attention, if you want to extract the text of a scanned PDF file, you must use the OCR PDF widget OCR PDF.
- Our tool will automatically extract the text of the PDF and convert it to a text file (.txt).
- Download the text file to your computer or save it directly to your cloud storage service.
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