The fastest way to get at what a PDF says. Text comes out in reading order with paragraphs rejoined, either as plain .txt or as Markdown with the headings marked up, ready to paste into anything.
This takes a second on the first visit, then it is cached.
Drop in the PDF.
Choose text or Markdown.
Extract and download — or copy it straight from the preview.
PDFs in multiple columns store glyphs in whatever order the generator emitted them. bakepdf sorts by position, which fixes most documents, but a very unusual layout can still come out shuffled.
No. PDF to text runs entirely inside your browser using WebAssembly and the Canvas API — the bytes of your document never travel to us. The only thing that reaches our servers is a counter incrementing by one, and whatever you deliberately choose to save to your library.
Not this one. PDF to text is part of Baker, at $10 a month — along with the other conversion, compression and security tools, and the AI ones. Signing, editing, watermarking, merging, splitting, rotating, organising and cropping are free, three documents a day up to ten pages each, with no account.