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title: PDF to Text
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description: Extract plain text content from PDF files. Supports batch extraction of multiple PDFs with output as TXT files.
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# PDF to Text
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Extracts all text content from PDF files and saves it as plain `.txt` files. Supports batch processing -- upload multiple PDFs and get each one's text extracted in a single operation. Powered by PyMuPDF.
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## How It Works
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1. Upload one or more PDFs by clicking the drop zone or dragging files onto it. Manage your file list with Add More and Clear buttons.
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2. Click **Extract** to start processing.
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3. A single file downloads as `filename.txt`. Multiple files produce a `pdf-to-text.zip` archive.
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## Options
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This tool has no configurable options. All text content is extracted from every page in reading order.
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## Output Format
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- **Single file**: `filename.txt`
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- **Multiple files**: `pdf-to-text.zip` containing one `.txt` per input PDF.
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## Use Cases
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- Extracting body text from PDF reports for full-text search indexing.
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- Converting PDF ebooks or articles to plain text for reading on e-ink devices.
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- Pulling text from contracts or legal documents for keyword analysis.
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- Stripping formatting from PDFs to get clean text for data processing scripts.
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- Preparing text corpus from PDF archives for natural language processing.
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## Tips
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- Scanned PDFs (image-only) will produce empty text files because there is no text layer to extract. Run scanned documents through OCR first.
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- The output preserves the reading order as interpreted by PyMuPDF, which generally follows left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Multi-column layouts may produce interleaved text.
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- For structured output with headings and formatting, try [PDF to Markdown](./pdf-to-markdown). For AI-ready structured JSON, use [Prepare PDF for AI](./prepare-pdf-for-ai).
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## Related Tools
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- [PDF to Markdown](./pdf-to-markdown)
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- [Prepare PDF for AI](./prepare-pdf-for-ai)
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- [PDF to Word](./pdf-to-docx)
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