MakeFileWork

Extract text from PDF

Turn a PDF into a plain UTF-8 text file. Native PDF text is extracted locally; scanned PDFs automatically use bounded English + Spanish OCR when needed.

What you get

The TXT output keeps page boundaries and is verified after extraction. This is useful for copying, searching, indexing or moving PDF content into another system without manual retyping.

Scanned PDFs

If the PDF contains no useful selectable text, the tool switches to OCR. The file remains processed in your browser, although the OCR engine and language data may need to download first.