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Convert PDF to plain TXT file. UTF-8 encoded. Free, no signup, files auto-deleted in 1 hour.
Plain TXT is the most portable format on Earth — every text editor, every programming language, every command-line tool reads it. Convert PDF to TXT for grep, awk, sed, machine learning datasets, or pure portability.
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Frequently asked questions
What encoding is the output?
UTF-8. International characters (accents, non-Latin scripts) round-trip cleanly.
Do I get one TXT per page?
No — single TXT file with the whole document. Form-feed (\f) characters separate pages if you want to split programmatically.