Windows
Installer (.exe)
Download for WindowsGet the app
Free download. The buttons below always get the newest release.
Mac
Disk image (.dmg) · macOS 12 Monterey or later
Download for Mac (Apple Silicon)Linux
Installer (.deb)
Download for LinuxOne window, three steps
- Drop your PDFs in — or click the box to browse. Add as many as you like.
- Choose the output folder. The app remembers it next time.
- Press Extract Text. Each PDF becomes a
.txtfile with the same name.
What you get
- Many files at once. Queue a whole folder of study material and convert it in one go.
- A window that stays responsive. Conversion runs in the background with a progress bar.
- Just the text. Formatting, images, and graphics are stripped out — what remains is plain, searchable text.
- Your files, your computer. Everything happens locally. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Questions
- Is it free?
- Yes. It is free and MIT-licensed.
- Do I need the internet to use it?
- Only to download it. Converting files works fully offline.
- Where do my text files go?
- Into the folder you choose in the app. If a conversion fails, the app tells you which file failed and why.
- What about scanned PDFs or photos of pages?
- Those contain pictures of text, not text itself, so the result will be empty. The app works on PDFs that have real, selectable text.
- I removed something from the queue by mistake.
- Press Undo in the small banner that appears — you have a few seconds, and nothing on your disk is ever deleted.