How to Extract Text, Emails and Links from a PDF
Sometimes you don’t need the whole PDF — you need what’s inside it: the text, a list of email addresses, or the links it references. Instead of copying by hand, you can extract exactly what you want for free. Here’s how.
Extract the text
The PDF to Text tool pulls the words out of a document into clean, plain text you can copy, search, or paste anywhere.
- Open PDF to Text and choose your file.
- Press Convert and copy or download the text.
Extract email addresses
Need every email address in a directory or report? Extract Emails from PDF finds and lists them all, saving you from hunting through pages.
Extract web links
Extract URLs from PDF gathers every link in the document into one list — handy for checking references or collecting resources.
A note on scanned PDFs
Extraction works on real, selectable text. If your PDF is a scan — a picture of a page — the text needs to be recognised with OCR first, or there’s nothing for the tools to pull out.
Frequently asked questions
What gets extracted? Text, email addresses, or web links, depending on the tool you choose.
Is my file uploaded? No — extraction runs in your browser, so your document stays private.
Why did nothing come out? The PDF is probably a scan; it needs OCR to turn the image into real text first.
Start with PDF to Text, Extract Emails, or Extract URLs.
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