Extract text from PDF files with page selection and export options
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Extract clean, editable text from any PDF document without retyping. Perfect for research papers, legal documents, and content analysis.
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This tool uses client-side WebAssembly to ensure your data never touches a server. Secure, fast, and 100% private by design.
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Select which pages you want to extract text from (All, Range, or Specific).
Click the 'Extract Text' button.
Review the extracted text in the editor.
Copy to clipboard or download as a .txt or .json file.
Extract invoice details for record keeping or data entry
invoice-2024.pdf (3 pages)
Invoice #INV-2024-001 Date: January 15, 2024 Client: Acme Corporation Items: - Web Development Services: $5,000 - Hosting Setup: $500 Total: $5,500
Get executive summary from multi-page report
annual-report.pdf (pages 1-2 of 50)
Executive Summary Q4 2024 Results: Revenue: $2.5M (+15% YoY) Profit: $450K (+22% YoY) Key Highlights: - Launched 3 new products - Expanded to EU market
Structured data extraction for programmatic processing
contract.pdf (5 pages)
{
"pages": [
{"pageNumber": 1, "text": "Service Agreement..."},
{"pageNumber": 2, "text": "Terms and Conditions..."}
]
}Extract completed form data for database entry without manual retyping.
Make contracts and legal PDFs searchable for specific clauses or terms.
Extract quotes and references from research papers for academic work.
Convert PDF documentation to plain text for website or knowledge base.
A PDF is not a 'text document' in the traditional sense; it's a collection of 'Drawing Instructions'. When we extract text, our engine parses the /Contents stream of each page to identify 'Tj' (Show Text) and 'TJ' (Show Text with Glyphs) operators. We then map these glyphs back to Unicode characters using the document's /ToUnicode CMap. This process requires deep understanding of PDF internal structures, as we must handle font encoding, spacing, and multi-byte character sets (like UTF-16BE) correctly to ensure the extracted characters match what you see on the screen. By performing this complex reconstruction in the browser, we offer a level of speed and security that cloud-based 'black box' services cannot match.
It's important to differentiate between 'Textual PDFs' and 'Image PDFs'. If a document was created by scanning a physical piece of paper, it is essentially a collection of high-resolution JPEG or JBIG2 images. This tool extracts 'embedded text', meaning it looks for the mathematical descriptions of letters. If no such layer exists, the result will be empty. For scanned documents, you would traditionally need Optical Character Recognition (OCR), which uses AI to 'read' the pixels. While FileMint excels at high-speed digital extraction, we recommend ensuring your PDFs are 'searchable' or 'tagged' before processing if you suspect they were created from a flatbed scanner.
One of the greatest challenges in text extraction is handling special symbols, ligatures (like 'fi' or 'fl'), and accented characters. FileMint's extraction engine applies Unicode Normalization Form C (NFC) during the export process. This ensures that a character like 'é' is represented as a single code point rather than two separate characters (e letter + accent). We also handle legacy encodings like WinAnsiEncoding and MacRoman to ensure that documents from older systems extract correctly. This technical attention to detail results in cleaner, more usable text that is ready for copy-pasting into modern web applications and word processors.
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