PDF Text Extractor
Extracts the text content from a PDF so you can search, copy and edit it. Handles multi-page documents and can return metadata such as page count and document properties.
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About
What the PDF Text Extractor does
Whether extraction works at all depends on how the PDF was made. A PDF exported from a word processor contains real text and extracts perfectly. A PDF made by scanning paper contains only images of text, and yields nothing — those need OCR instead.
How it works
Using the PDF Text Extractor
- 1Upload your PDF.
- 2Choose an extraction method — pdfplumber generally preserves layout better.
- 3Optionally restrict extraction to a page range.
- 4The document's text layer is read and assembled.
- 5The extracted text is returned, with metadata if requested.
Use cases
What people use it for
- Pulling quotes from a research paper
- Extracting line items from an invoice
- Making a report searchable
- Migrating content out of PDF into a CMS
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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