Offline PDF to Text & Markdown (with OCR)

Turn a PDF into text or Markdown on your own computer, scanned pages included (OCR). No upload, no page limit.

Get the text out of a PDF as plain text or Markdown, including pages that are only scanned pictures. On a tab showing a PDF, click the button (or press Alt+Shift+P): the PDF opens in the reader beside it and its text appears, page by page. Or open the reader and drop a PDF file on it. Copy the result, or save it as a .txt or .md file. Reads on your computer The PDF engine (pdf.js) and the text recognition for scanned pages (Tesseract) are built into the extension. Your file is never uploaded. When you click the button, the extension requests the tab's address once more to read the PDF there (if the tab shows a web page instead, it stops reading as soon as the reply says so). That is the only request it ever makes. Markdown that keeps the structure Headings are worked out from the type sizes, lists stay lists, and lines broken across the page are joined back into paragraphs. No limits No page limit, no daily quota, no account. Asks for very little It can't see a tab until you click its button or press its shortcut, and then only that tab's address. It keeps nothing: no history, no account, no tracking. Good to know - Scanned pages are read in English only, for now. Text that is already in the PDF comes out in any language. - Tables and images are not rebuilt; table text comes out as lines. - A PDF that needs a password, or whose owner forbids copying its text, is not read. - A file on your computer can be dropped on the reader; to read a local PDF tab directly, turn on "Allow access to file URLs" for the extension. - The download is about 19 MB, because the PDF and recognition engines are inside it.