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PDF Extract Text

Pull text out of digital PDFs. Locally. (No OCR — vector text only.)

How it works

Pull plain text out of a digital PDF — contracts, reports, exported documents, anywhere the text is real text and not a scanned image. The extraction runs in your browser via PDF.js, so confidential documents never leave your device. Scanned/image PDFs return empty text — that is intentional; OCR is a separate concern.

Verify it yourself. Open DevTools → Network → run a conversion. The only requests you'll see are the page assets — your file never leaves this tab.

FAQ

Why is the extracted text empty?

Your PDF is probably a scanned image, not vector text. Bytario does not run OCR (Tesseract is too heavy for the browser); for scanned documents, use a dedicated OCR tool first.

Does this preserve layout?

Plain text only in V1. Layout-aware extraction with per-line coordinates is on the roadmap.

Can I extract text from a specific page range?

V1 returns all pages; the API supports page-range filtering. The result includes per-page strings so you can slice it client-side.