Extract Text from PDF
Recover readable text, structured tables, and vector layout details from digital or scanned PDFs—with page-level visual verification before download.
- Reading-order Text
- Ruled & Borderless Tables
- Selective OCR
- Vector Shape Data
- Exact Page Inspection
- TXT, Markdown, JSON & XLSX
Password requiredUsed for these requests only and never stored.
Temporary, reviewable extractionNative text remains native. OCR is selective, passwords are not stored, and uploads and generated packages expire automatically.
Upload a PDF to inspect its structure
Compare the original page with detected reading order, tables, OCR text, and vector drawing paths before exporting.
- Reading order
- Tables
- OCR
- Shapes + SVG
Numbered overlays show the exact reading order used by TXT, Markdown, and JSON exports.
What does the structured PDF extractor recover?
This tool reads the native PDF text layer with its coordinates, font details, and source order. It rebuilds a more natural page reading order, separates headings and lists, detects ruled or visually aligned borderless tables, and records the vector paths used for boxes, rules, curves, and diagrams.
Pages without a usable text layer can be processed with Tesseract OCR when the required server language data is installed. The page map, extracted text, tables, and vector list all come from the same analysis used to build the final downloads.
How to extract PDF text, tables, and shapes
- Choose or drop one PDF up to 32 MB; enter its password if the file is protected.
- Choose pages, reading order, table detection, and OCR settings. Auto OCR runs only on likely scanned pages.
- Move through the exact page preview and inspect numbered text blocks, green table regions, and orange vector shapes.
- Check the Text, Tables, and Vectors tabs. Change any setting and wait for the same page to refresh.
- Extract up to 100 selected pages, then download TXT, Markdown, layout JSON, table XLSX, individual CSV/SVG files inside the verified ZIP.
Structured output for review and reuse
- Keep left-to-right column flow instead of mixing lines from separate columns.
- Export ruled and borderless table cells to a formatted Excel workbook and individual UTF-8 CSV files.
- Remove repeated page headers and footers without deleting their coordinates from the structured JSON audit trail.
- Store text blocks, cell boxes, vector paths, colours, opacity, line widths, page size, and analysis signatures in layout JSON.
- Preserve each page's vector-backed visual layout as SVG when vector extraction is enabled.
PDF text extraction FAQ
Can it extract tables without visible borders?
Yes. Auto mode looks for stable multi-column text alignment, while Borderless mode also permits two-column candidates. Review the Tables tab because unusually spaced forms can resemble borderless tables.
Does it use OCR on every page?
No. Auto OCR runs only when a page appears scanned or has almost no native text. Force OCR is available for selected pages, but native extraction is faster and usually more accurate for digital PDFs.
What shape data is extracted?
Vector drawing paths are exported with their bounding boxes, path commands, stroke and fill colours, opacity, line width, and table-rule classification. The ZIP can also include page SVG files that preserve the visual vector layout.
Will every document be perfectly reconstructed?
No extractor can infer every semantic relationship from arbitrary PDF drawing commands. Dense scans, merged cells, overlapping layers, unusual fonts, and complex clipping paths should be reviewed in the page map and structured downloads.
Are passwords or files retained?
Passwords are sent only for the current request and are never stored. Uploaded PDFs, analysis sessions, and generated downloads are temporary and automatically removed.
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