Use this form to upload a scanned PDF file and convert the PDF file to text (*.txt) file.

1. Click the "Choose File" button (different web browsers may have different button names such as "browse..."), a browse window will open, select a local PDF file (*.pdf) and click the "Open" button.
2. Click the "Convert Now!" button to convert. Wait a few seconds for the file conversion to finish.
3. All PDF pages will be saved as one txt file. You can download or view the txt file on your web browser after conversion. No email address required to receive files.

Notice: This form is for OCR conversion only. Click here if you want to convert a searchable PDF file to text file without OCR processing.

Optical character recognition (OCR): Optical character recognition (OCR) is the conversion of images into text. It is widely used as a form of data entry from printed paper data records, whether passport documents, invoices, bank statements, computerized receipts, business cards, mail, printouts of static-data, or any suitable documentation. It is a common method of digitizing printed texts so that it can be electronically edited, searched, stored more compactly, displayed online, and used in machine processes such as machine translation, text-to-speech, key data and text mining. OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision.