PDF to Text

It's simpler than reconstructing formatting, but still requires parsing the PDF's internal text-run and font-encoding model (mapping each glyph back to the correct Unicode character, especially for subsetted or non-standard fonts), which needs a real PDF parsing library beyond what this browser-only tool includes.

Smallpdf, ILovePDF, and Adobe Acrobat Online all offer real PDF text extraction; for scanned/image-based PDFs specifically, you'd also need OCR, which these tools typically include.

As a quick reference pointing you to the right tool for the job, rather than a fake extractor that returns garbled or missing text.