Extract the text of a webpage
Paste a public URL and we render the live page, then hand you its clean plain text — without the menus, ads and cookie clutter.
Advanced
Optional: wait until this element has loaded before capturing, e.g. #content or .price.
Optional: return only the text inside these elements, e.g. article or .price.
Copy-paste from the browser is messy
The usual way
- Copy-pasting drags along menus, buttons and ad text.
- The cookie banner blocks the content you actually want.
- Doing it for many pages by hand is slow.
With PDFengine
- A headless browser renders the page and extracts its readable text.
- Cookie walls and ads are blocked automatically.
- Extract many URLs at once and get them as a ZIP.
How it works
Paste your URLs
Add one public link per line — up to 20 at once.
We extract the text
A headless browser renders each page and pulls out the readable text.
Download your text
One URL gives a .txt file; several give a ZIP with one file per page.
Clean, readable text
Everything you need to get the words off a page.
Clean extraction
You get the readable content, without menus, buttons and ad noise.
Cookie & ad blocking
Consent walls and ads are removed automatically before extraction.
Multiple URLs at once
Extract up to 20 pages in one go and download them as a ZIP.
What people use it for
Content & research
Pull the text of articles and pages for reading or reuse.
Analysis
Feed clean page text into your own tools or AI workflows.
Archiving
Keep a lightweight text record of what a page said.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly do I get?
A plain-text (.txt) file with the readable content of the page — menus, buttons and ads are left out as much as possible.
Does it keep the formatting?
No — this returns plain text, not layout. For a faithful visual copy, use URL to PDF or URL to PNG instead.
Can I extract several URLs at once?
Yes — paste up to 20 URLs, one per line. Multiple URLs give a ZIP with one text file per page.
Do I need an account?
You can try it without signing up. Downloading requires a free account, and each extracted URL uses one credit.