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About HushPDF

Private by design

  • Files are processed in your browser — never uploaded, tracked, or stored.
  • Free & open source (MIT) — audit, self-host, or fork it.

Limitations

  • Password-protected PDFs aren’t supported.
  • Up to 50 MB per file (150 MB total when merging).
  • It edits the finished PDF, not the Word or design file it was made from.
  • Forms, annotations, or signatures may not carry over when pages are copied.
  • Signatures are images (e-signatures), not certificate-based digital signatures.
  • Typed text supports Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Bengali, Devanagari and Arabic.
  • Compression helps most with scanned or image-heavy PDFs.
  • OCR (beta) downloads a language model on first use; your pages stay on your device.
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PDF to Text

Extract all the text

How it works

Pull all the text out of a PDF — preview it, copy it, or download it as a .txt file.

  1. Add one PDF file.
  2. Preview the extracted text; toggle page separators if you like.
  3. Copy it, or choose “Download .txt”.
  4. For scanned pages, open the file in OCR first.

Questions

Why is some text missing?

Scanned pages are images and contain no text. Use the OCR tool to recognise them first.

Is formatting kept?

Only plain text and line breaks are extracted. Fonts, tables and layout aren’t preserved.

Are my files uploaded to a server?

No. Every operation runs locally in your browser using JavaScript (pdf-lib, with page previews from PDF.js). Your documents are never transmitted to us or to any third party, and there are no accounts, watermarks, or file-retention tricks. You can even disconnect from the internet after the page loads and the tools still work.