Read any PDF into clean text.
Drop a PDF — printed, scanned or handwritten — and read it back as clean, editable text in moments. No upload limits, no watermark, no nonsense.
Invoice 0142
Design work …… 480.00
Print & bind …… 95.00
VAT (20%) ……… 115.00
Total ……… 690.00
Invoice 0142
Design work — £480.00
Print & bind — £95.00
VAT (20%) — £115.00
Total — £690.00
The reader for the pages other PDF tools fumble.
Handwriting
Read far more reliably than the legacy, print-only converters that struggle the moment a page is handwritten.
Tables preserved
Come back as a markdown grid or CSV — not a loose pile of mis-positioned numbers.
Scanned PDFs
Where many converters stall on a scan, the same workflow reads it just like any other page.
No ads on free
The free tier stays clean and ad-free — no banner walls between you and your text.
Side-by-side review
See the original page, edit the read text beside it, then export with confidence.
No limits, no watermark
No upload caps and nothing stamped on your output. Read it and use it.
From PDF to text in four steps.
It reads each page
Wait a moment while every page is read into text.
Review
Check and edit the text beside the original page.
Export
Download as .txt, .md or .docx, or copy to clipboard.
Honest about accuracy
Printed PDFs read near-perfectly; messy handwriting is harder. The read text always sits beside your original, so you can fix anything before you use it.
Yes — that's the whole point. It reads scanned pages where older OCR gives up. Handwriting, table layouts and faded text all read well.
5 PDFs a day anonymously, 20 a day signed in. Pro at £9.99 a month removes the cap and unlocks tables to CSV.
Older OCR engines often mangle scans. Our reader is far more reliable on handwriting and keeps table structure intact.
For reading scanned pages, each page is sent to a third-party reading service for transcription and is not stored. For pure-text PDFs, the in-browser pdf-to-word converter does the conversion without any upload step.