Copy text from PDF
When you need the words inside a PDF, Slay PDF can export text from the edited document and can add OCR for scanned pages.
Download extracted text from the PDF workflow.
Use OCR when the PDF is a scan instead of real text.
Remove unneeded pages before exporting text from the document.
Text export is useful for notes, summaries, search, records and moving PDF content into another document.
Some PDFs contain images of text rather than selectable text. For those, run OCR first and review the result.
Yes. Use Slay PDF text export for PDFs with text, or OCR first for scanned PDFs.
Yes. Select the pages you need before using text export.
No. Plain text export focuses on text content rather than preserving layout.