📋 Extract Text from PDF

Extracts all text content from a PDF and saves it as a plain .txt file using Poppler (pdftotext). Options include layout preservation (maintains spacing and column alignment), text encoding selection, and converting all pages or a custom page range. Works on PDFs with an embedded text layer — scanned image-only PDFs require OCR and will produce empty or poor output. The text file is generated server-side and deleted after download.

This tool works best with PDFs that contain a text layer. Scanned image-only PDFs will produce little or no text output.