Selecting text in a PDF is often awkward: lines break, columns get mixed or the text cannot be selected at all. If what you need is the content —to paste it into an email, a form or another document—, the fastest way is to extract all of it at once.

Step by step

  1. Go to "PDF to text" on LeuPaPDF and choose the file.
  2. Leave "Mark where each page starts" checked if you want to find your way in the document later.
  3. Press "Extract text". You will see the result on screen.
  4. Press "Copy text" to paste it anywhere, or "Download .txt" to save it.

What if the PDF is scanned?

In a scanned document, the text is part of an image and cannot be copied. Turn on "Recognize text (OCR)" and choose the language: the tool reads the letters in the image. The first time it downloads the language data, and then everything happens on your device. Check the result: blurry photos or small print can introduce errors.

Text or Word: which one to choose

  • Text (.txt): when you only care about the content, to copy it, search it or paste it elsewhere.
  • Word (.docx): when you want to keep editing the document with headings, font sizes and page breaks.
  • Edit PDF: when you only need to change a word or a line and want the rest to stay the same.