Convert PDF to text or Markdown without server uploads
Extract all the text from a PDF and download it as a text or Markdown file. This is especially useful for feeding documents to AI tools with fewer tokens, as clean text costs a fraction of a full document. It is also great for copying content, searching archives, and quoting accurately. The file stays on your computer and is never uploaded to any server, so it is safe to process client documents here. The tool extracts digital text, meaning text saved as characters within the file rather than as an image.
No. A scan is just an image of a page, and there is no text to extract. For scanned documents, use an image to text tool that recognizes letters using OCR.
Open the file and try to highlight a line of text with your mouse. If you can highlight and copy it, the file is digital and this tool will work. If it selects a rectangle like an image, it is scanned.
Hebrew documents are sometimes saved with a character order determined during printing rather than typing, especially with columns or tables. In these cases, you should review the result before using it.
Uploading a full PDF to an AI tool includes its formatting, fonts, and page structure. Clean text conveys the exact same information at a fraction of the length, making it both cheaper and more accurate in the response.
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