Open a PDF, compare its pages with the extracted text, and download the pages you need. Follow the real example below, then adapt it to your own source. Open PDF to Text.
Open a PDF with selectable text
Open PDF to Text and choose Try a sample for the source used in this guide, or upload your own PDF. Opening the document starts extraction and then displays the source beside its text.
Maximum PDF size: 100 MB. Maximum pages: 750. The text viewer shows up to 200 KB per selected view; downloads retain the complete extracted text.
Opening the PDF sends it for sanitized server extraction. Preview navigation and prepared text exports then work from that result. Temporary native conversion files are removed after the response is delivered.
Choose the pages and export format
Leave the page selection empty to include all pages and select One text file for this example. Select a page range if you only need part of another document.
One text file joins the selected page text into a TXT download. Separate files produces a ZIP containing the selected page files plus combined.txt. Blank selected pages retain empty files. Start downloads the prepared result and opens the result screen for another download or a return to review.
The example in this guide
Verified in the i2TEXT browser workflow on November 11, 2026.
- Input
- Built-in PDF sample
- Output
- sample-pdf-to-text.txt
- Saved result
- 3940 bytes
Compare the extraction with the pages
Use the page controls to inspect the source and extracted text. Switch to All text to review the combined view. Check headings, columns, punctuation and the order of positioned text.
Reading order depends on how the PDF stores its text. Columns, unusual fonts and positioned fragments can produce imperfect ordering; scans need OCR.
This sample includes a designed page layout. The extracted words are reusable, but the TXT is not a recreation of that layout.
Save the prepared text
Select Start to prepare the chosen export. Download sample-pdf-to-text.txt from the result page. For this run it contains the extracted text from all selected pages.
Copy works on the selected text view, and Download this page saves the current page with a meaningful filename. For responsiveness, the viewer displays at most the first 200 KB of a selected view; copying and downloading keep the full extracted text.
Built-in PDF samplesample-pdf-to-text.txt
Common questions
Can this extract the words in a scanned page?
This tool reads an existing PDF text layer. If a page is a scan or its text layer is unreadable, ordinary extraction cannot recover the pictured letters. Use an OCR workflow for those pages; Image to Text accepts an exported page image rather than a PDF file.
How do separate page downloads work?
One text file joins the selected page text into a TXT download. Separate files produces a ZIP containing the selected page files plus combined.txt. Blank selected pages retain empty files. Start downloads the prepared result and opens the result screen for another download or a return to review.
Why can the text order differ from the PDF?
Reading order depends on how the PDF stores its text. Columns, unusual fonts and positioned fragments can produce imperfect ordering; scans need OCR.
Try PDF to Text with your own source.
Use your own source and review the result before sharing.
