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Why Convert PDF to Text?

Your most important documents are probably PDFs: contracts, invoices, reports, receipts, and scans. PDFs are great for people to read, but they are a poor format for everything you want to do with them next. You cannot search across a folder of them at once. Scanned PDFs and photos contain no text at all, just a picture of text.

Can I convert a scanned PDF or an image to text?

Yes - that is exactly what the built-in OCR is for. Convert PDF to Text reads scanned PDFs, photos, screenshots, and image files (PNG, JPG, and more) and turns them into clean, editable text, just like a regular PDF. There is no OCR software to install.

What file types can I convert to text?

PDFs (both digital and scanned), plus images such as PNG and JPG - photos of documents, screenshots, and scanned pages saved as images. Everything runs through the same pipeline and comes out as a clean TXT file.

Why convert PDFs to text for AI and ChatGPT?

AI tools are inefficient with PDFs: layout markup wastes space, scanned pages are invisible without OCR, and multi-column layouts scramble the reading order. Plain text is the format AI tools read best - smaller, cheaper, and more accurate. With redaction switched on, you also get text that is safe to send to an AI service in the first place.

Can I convert many files at once?

Absolutely. Pick a whole Google Drive folder (or drag a stack of files from your computer into the wizard) and we convert every file in the batch. Files are processed in parallel, so a folder of 50 documents finishes in roughly the time it takes to convert 5 one after another.