Extract Text — Pull Plain Text from Any Document

Sometimes you just need the raw text — no formatting, no images, no layout. The MyPDF Extract Text tool pulls plain text from PDFs, Word documents, presentations, images (via OCR), and many other formats, giving you clean, copy-paste-ready output.

How to Extract Text from a Document

1. Upload — Drop your file into the tool. Supported formats include PDF, DOCX, PPTX, ODT, RTF, images, and more.
2. Extract — The tool parses the document and outputs raw text. For images and scanned PDFs, OCR is applied automatically.
3. Copy or download — Copy the text to your clipboard or download it as a .txt file.

Supported Input Formats

Format	Text Extraction Method
PDF (digital)	Direct text layer extraction
PDF (scanned)	OCR (optical character recognition)
DOCX / ODT / RTF	Document parser
PPTX	Slide text extraction
Images (JPG, PNG, TIFF)	OCR
HTML	Tag stripping
EPUB / MOBI	E-book parser

Practical Tips

• Use for data migration. Extract text from legacy documents to import into new systems, databases, or CMS platforms.
• Combine with Text Diff. Extract text from two versions of a document and use the Text Diff tool to compare them.
• Run word count on the output. Paste the extracted text into the Word Count tool to get accurate document statistics.

Does the tool preserve formatting?

No. The output is plain text without bold, italic, headings, or layout structure. For formatted conversion, use dedicated converters like PDF to Word or PDF to Markdown.

Can it extract text from scanned PDFs?

Yes. The tool applies OCR automatically when no text layer is detected. For best results on scanned documents, use the dedicated OCR PDF tool.

What about password-protected PDFs?

You need to unlock the PDF first using the Unlock PDF tool before text extraction can proceed.

Related Tools

• OCR PDF — Full OCR with searchable PDF output.
• PDF to Text — Convert PDF to plain text.
• Word Count — Count words in extracted text.
• Text Diff — Compare extracted text from two documents.