Text has to exist
A scanned page is an image, so it needs OCR before meaningful text can be extracted. This tool will tell you when it finds no text.
Browser-local PDF utilities
Extract selectable text, make PNG or JPG pages, put pages in a new order, or crop margins. The selected PDF stays in this browser; only the tool-usage check is requested from our site.
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These tools operate on an uploaded file in your browser. Password- protected, damaged, and very large PDFs are not supported here.
PDF utility
Extract the embedded text from selected PDF pages into a plain-text download. Image-only scans do not contain text to extract.
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A scanned page is an image, so it needs OCR before meaningful text can be extracted. This tool will tell you when it finds no text.
Choose PNG for sharp graphics or JPG for smaller photographs. One selected page downloads as an image; multiple pages are zipped.
Cropping changes the visible page boundary. Do not use it to hide confidential information; use a proper redaction workflow.