PDF to TXT Converter

The tool reads the PDF's text layer, which contains character data with positioning information. It reconstructs reading order by analyzing text coordinates, producing clean plaintext output.

No, scanned PDFs contain images of text, not actual text data. For scanned documents, use an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool first to create a searchable text layer, then extract.

Basic paragraph structure and line breaks are preserved. Advanced formatting (fonts, colors, columns, tables) is lost since plaintext doesn't support these features. Consider PDF to HTML for formatted output.

The tool attempts to reconstruct reading order, but complex multi-column layouts may produce interleaved text. Single-column documents produce the cleanest output.

Yes. You can specify which pages to extract text from, allowing you to target specific sections of large documents without processing the entire file.