Plain text format guide and tools
Plain text stores characters without page layout or document styling.
Before you convert
Generate a paginated PDF from text, or obtain English text through OCR. Recognized text can contain errors and needs review, especially for numbers, columns and low-resolution scans.
Check each tool’s processing label: browser and server tools handle files differently.
Available Plain text tools
Secure server processing
Extract English Text from Scanned PDF
Run OCR on up to five PDF pages and download recognized English text in page order.
PDF ToolsOpen tool
Secure server processing
Convert Plain Text TXT to PDF
Convert plain text files into clean, paginated PDF documents.
Convert to PDFOpen tool
Secure server processing
Extract English Text from an Image
Recognize printed English text in a PNG or JPEG with temporary server-side Tesseract OCR.
OCR & ScansOpen tool