PDF to Text

Turn any PDF in Chrome into clean, copyable text and Markdown. Runs 100% locally with no uploads.

PDF to Text extracts clean, structured text from any PDF you open in Chrome — including the ones where Chrome's native copy-paste produces gibberish. How it works: 1. Navigate to any .pdf URL in Chrome 2. Click the PDF to Text toolbar icon → "Open in PDF to Text" 3. The extension downloads the PDF and runs a WebAssembly text extraction engine locally in your browser 4. Copy the clean text, download as .md, or let browser automation agents read it via window.__glyph Features: • Clean text extraction from PDFs with broken Unicode mappings • Three output formats: plain text, basic Markdown, structured Markdown with YAML frontmatter, auto-generated TOC, heading detection, and token counts • One-click copy, copy as .md, or download as .md file • Font-size-based heading detection + numbered section pattern matching • Code block detection with language hints (C, Python, JavaScript, Rust) • Math formula and diagram regions auto-fenced for clean rendering • Recent extraction history in the popup — revisit any PDF you've extracted • Agentic API: browser automation tools can read window.__glyph.markdown.structured directly • Background pre-fetch: starts downloading the PDF while you're still viewing it in Chrome's native viewer Privacy: Everything runs locally. No data leaves your device except anonymous performance metrics (extraction time, page count — never PDF content or URLs). Full privacy policy: https://jordancoin.github.io/pdf-to-text/#privacy For developers and AI agents: PDF to Text exposes a page-world global (window.__glyph) so any browser automation tool — Playwright, Puppeteer, Claude in Chrome, Cursor — can programmatically extract markdown from PDFs by URL. No API key, no rate limit, no server.