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PDF to TextFebruary 5, 20263 min read

How to Extract Text from PDF on Linux

Extract text from a PDF on Linux without pdftotext or poppler. Free browser tool in Firefox or Chrome.

Extract text from a PDF on Linux without pdftotext (poppler-utils) or any package install. FixMyPDF does it in the browser.

Open Firefox or Chrome on Linux

Go to fixmypdf.in/tools/pdf-text in your Linux browser.

Upload the PDF

Click "Choose File" and select the PDF from your Linux filesystem.

Extract Text

Click Extract. All text content from every page is pulled and displayed in the browser.

Copy or Download

Copy the extracted text directly from the browser, or download it as a .txt file.

Alternative to pdftotext

The pdftotext input.pdf output.txt command from poppler-utils is the classic Linux approach. FixMyPDF does the same without installing poppler-utils.

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