PDF to Text

Get the text from any PDF. The tool will use OCR if the PDF contains scans or images of text.

1

Choose PDF

Upload

URL

Upload a pdf

or drag 'n' drop an pdf here

2

AI Model

Google's Tessaeract OCR

Good overall

Document Understanding Transformer

(DONUT) Good for receipts and documents

Tip: Try different models to see what works best for your PDF.

Run privately

Get Text

Tip: if your pdf has complex layouts with multiple columns, try screenshoting one column at a time, and use the extract-text-from-image tool.

Run PDF to Text tasks programmatically using the code in the API panel to the right.