PDF to text
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How to extract text from a PDF
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Drop your PDF
Drag it onto the box or tap to pick it. It's read right in your browser, page by page.
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Tidy it up
PDFs break sentences at the end of every line. Turn on Join broken lines to get proper paragraphs back.
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Keep it
Pick plain text or keep the formatting, then copy it, download it, or save it to BrainDump as a note you can search later.
From documents to notes
The text inside a PDF is easier to use once it sits with the rest of your notes.
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FAQ
No. The PDF is opened and read in your browser, so the file never leaves your device. Nothing is stored either: close the tab and it's gone. Only Save to BrainDump sends the text, and only when you tap it.
Yes, pick Keep formatting. Bigger text becomes a heading, bold and italic stay, and bullet points become lists. Copy formatted pastes cleanly into Docs, Word or email, and the download is a .md file. Some PDFs don't say which fonts are bold, so those come out as plain text.
Your PDF is most likely a scan or a photo of pages. Those are images, with no text inside to extract. They need OCR (text recognition), which this tool doesn't do.
A PDF stores text line by line, exactly as it's laid out on the page. Turn on Join broken lines and lines that belong to the same paragraph are put back together.
Yes, up to 50 MB and 1,000 pages. Pages are read one at a time, and you can watch the progress as it goes.
Not directly. Open the PDF with its password, save a copy without protection, then drop that copy here.
