Get the text out of a PDF, all of it
No more selecting text page by page. Open the PDF and every word lands in a box you can copy or download.
How it works
- Open the PDF.
- The text from every page appears in the box, ready to edit.
- Copy it all with one click, or save it as a text file.
Why copying from a PDF is such a pain
Selecting text in a PDF reader grabs columns in the wrong order, skips across pages or refuses to select at all. Pulling the text out directly gives you clean, editable words you can paste into an email, a document or a chatbot.
Line breaks are kept tidy
Each line of the PDF becomes a line of text, and pages are separated by a blank line. You can tidy anything else up right in the box before you copy it.
Your documents are nobody else's business
Contracts, medical letters, bank statements, unpublished manuscripts. Many online PDF tools upload them to a server you know nothing about. readmypdf opens, reads and converts everything inside your own browser, so your files never leave your device.
Good questions
Why is the box empty for my PDF?
The PDF is most likely a scan, which stores pictures of pages instead of text. It needs OCR software to turn the pictures into words.
Does it keep formatting like bold and tables?
It keeps the words and line breaks. Fonts, bold and table borders are dropped, which is usually what you want when pasting somewhere else.
Is my document private?
Yes. The text is extracted inside your browser and is never uploaded.