Free converter
PDFTextPDF to Text Converter
Pull the words out of a PDF as plain text — searchable, editable and a fraction of the size. BizTray extracts the document's own text layer locally, so contracts and statements never go near a web uploader.
Drop in your files — A .txt file per PDF, in the folder you choose.
Why convert
Why convert PDF to text?
A PDF is built to be looked at, not processed. Extracting the text gives you something you can search, quote, edit, diff or feed into another tool — without retyping a word of it.
- You need to quote or reuse passages from a long document.
- A report has to be searched or compared against another version.
- You want the content without the layout, images and file size.
- A folder of documents needs to be indexed or processed as text.
How it works
Convert PDF to Text in a few clicks
- 1
Open PDF Converter
Choose it from the tray. Nothing downloads and it works offline.
- 2
Add the PDFs
One file or a whole folder — no cap on either size or count.
- 3
Choose the pages
Extract the whole document or just a page range.
- 4
Convert
Pick where the text files go and run it. The PDFs are left unchanged.
The details
PDF to Text, at a glance
- Source
- The PDF's embedded text layer — the actual characters, not guesswork
- Scanned PDFs
- A page that is only an image has no text layer, so nothing can be extracted from it
- Output
- Plain UTF-8 text, one file per PDF
- Page range
- Whole document or any range
- Engine download
- None — built in and offline
- Limits
- No page cap, no size cap, no watermark
Questions
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It's one tool inside BizTray, alongside the PDF Organizer, PDF Tools, and Fill & Sign. One small download, no account.
Local, private, no watermark.