Copy all the words out of a PDF
Need the text of a report for an email, a quote or a translation? PDF to text saves every word as a plain text file in a second, without fighting the PDF's selection.
Works offline on Windows, Mac and Linux · KES 1,200 ≈ US$9, once
Watch how it works
How to use PDF to text
Each step as it looks in Kifuli, from opening the tool to the finished file.
- Choose PDF to text.
- Drop in your PDFs.
- Click Extract text. A .txt file is saved next to each PDF.
The settings
What you can change before you run PDF to text.
- Pages
Use commas and dashes, for example 1-3, 5, 8-.
What it does
- Keeps reading order and paragraph breaks where the PDF allows.
- Choose all pages or ranges like 1-3, 7.
- Batch: one text file per PDF.
- For scans, run Make scans searchable first so there is text to extract.
Questions about PDF to text
Why is my text file empty?
The PDF is a scan: pictures of pages with no text inside. Make scans searchable reads the words first, in English or Kiswahili.
Does it keep tables?
Text comes out line by line. For tables you want to calculate with, use PDF to Excel instead.
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