Extract text from PDF documents

The converter extracts text as it appears in the PDF, attempting to preserve paragraph breaks. However, complex layouts may require some manual cleanup of the resulting text file.

Scanned PDFs contain images of text rather than actual text. These require OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to convert images into editable text. Our standard converter works best with text-based PDFs. OCR can be enabled to better convert image-based PDFs.

Images are skipped during text extraction. Table content is extracted as plain text, though the tabular structure may be lost. For preserving table structure, consider PDF to Excel conversion instead.

Yes, you can upload multiple PDF files or a ZIP archive containing up to 50 PDFs for batch text extraction.

Converting a file to PDF ensures your document stays consistent and accessible. PDFs lock in formatting, design, and structure, preventing layout shifts that can happen with editable file types. They’re compatible with virtually all devices and operating systems, making them ideal for professional documents, forms, reports, and presentations. PDFs are also easy to distribute; whether through email, downloads, cloud platforms, or QR-codes that let users open a file instantly on their phone.

Our intelligent software minimizes quality loss when converting documents. As such, documents can be converted without having to worry about quality loss for a great number of times.

No; our intelligent PDF software recognizes document layouts and transforms them accurately onto a new file format. Was your lay-out or format not transformed accurately? Consider applying OCR, or applying different customization settings to convert it correctly.

Yes! There are no limits to converting documents, and documents can safely and easily be converted back and forth. Conversion can be handy to edit a PDF document in Word, and later convert it back into an organized PDF format.

To merge PDF documents simply go to our converter, choose the file format you’re merging, and drag and drop the files you want to merge. Then you have the opportunity to edit some settings, press merge, and you’re done! You can download your merged file right away.

Yes, PDFengine offers various means of customizing your (PDF) documents. Consider adding a cover page, applying OCR, or using PDF/A as output.

If the text is not copyable, clickable, or searchable, that means the text is not recognized within the PDF. Try uploading your document onto PDFen and applying OCR. OCR technology will make your text readable. In case it doesn’t work completely in one go: apply OCR a second time.