Extract PDF Text

Pull plain text from PDFs locally—no upload, no signup.

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Select or drop PDFExtract text per page locally; scans may have no text layer.

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Convert, compress, merge, split, extract, and organize PDFs with practical browser tools and task guides.

How to use & FAQ

Quotes, notes, and imports need selectable text. Tools Ku parses the text layer in your browser with PDF.js—nothing sent to a server.

Works best on digital PDFs; scanned pages without a text layer may return empty—use PDF to Word or OCR workflows instead.

Uploaded to a server?▾

No—parsing is local only.

Scanned PDFs?▾

Without embedded text, extraction is usually empty—OCR or convert tools help.

Keeps formatting?▾

Plain text only—layout and images are not preserved.

Partial pages?▾

Use page filters if available, or copy per-page sections.

Tables messy?▾

Complex tables may break lines—verify against the PDF.

Account needed?▾

No.