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Your files never leave your device
Free to use, with no account, no usage limit and no watermark, because the work runs on your device rather than on our servers.
This is not a promise about how carefully we handle your upload. There is no upload. The file you choose is read into memory by your own browser, processed there, and handed back as a download — the tool has no server component and makes no network request with your data.
- Nothing is stored. We never receive the file, so there is no copy to retain, no retention period to disclose, and nothing to delete on request.
- Nothing is transmitted. No upload endpoint, no analytics payload carrying file contents, no third-party processor.
- You can verify it. Load this page, disconnect from the internet, and use the tool. It still works, because everything it needs is already on your machine.
- Nothing persists after you close the tab. Files are held in page memory only — not in local storage, not in a cache, not in a database.
A note on wording, because it matters: we do not describe these tools as “encrypted.” Encryption protects data that travels to somebody else's computer. Your file does not travel, so there is nothing to encrypt and nothing to intercept — which is a stronger guarantee than encryption, not a weaker one. The page itself is served over HTTPS like the rest of the site.
This makes the tools safe for material you are contractually barred from uploading to third-party services — client footage under NDA, unreleased campaign assets, anything covered by a confidentiality clause.
How it works
1. Drop a PDF
Up to 150 MB and 500 pages. It needs a real text layer, not a scan.
2. Extract the text
Every page is read in order and marked with a --- Page N --- line.
3. Copy or download
Copy from the box, or make it a downloadable extracted.txt.
Questions
Why did I get no text at all?
Almost always because the PDF is a scan. A scanned page is a picture of text, not text, so there is nothing to extract without optical character recognition. which is a different operation and needs a model rather than a parser. A quick test: if you cannot select the text in a PDF viewer, this tool cannot extract it either.
Why is the spacing odd in places?
PDFs store text as positioned runs rather than as sentences, so word breaks are inferred from coordinates. Multi-column layouts and tables are where that inference struggles most, because reading order is a visual convention the file does not record.
How is the text laid out in the output?
Page by page, each starting with a --- Page N --- line, with lines rebuilt from where the text sits on the page. Fonts, bold, tables and images are not kept, only the words.
Related tools
Stay in the same job cluster. Free tools stay on-device; paid tools are labelled as such.
These rearrange files. Versely makes new ones.
Everything on this page works on a file you already have, which is why it costs nothing. Generating something that did not exist (video from a prompt, a voice, a score) runs a model, and that costs credits.