# PDF to Plain Text

PDF files (.pdf) into Plain Text (.txt), on your Mac, iPhone or iPad. Converted on the device. Nothing is uploaded.

## How

- On a Mac: drop the PDF file on convertfile and pick Plain Text, or right-click it in Finder and choose Quick Actions, then convertfile.
- On an iPhone or iPad: share the PDF file to convertfile and pick Plain Text.

## What it does

- Converted by PdfEngine, with Vision text recognition for scanned pages, on the device.
- Counts toward 25 free documents. convertfile Pro lifts the counter, once.

## PDF also becomes

- [PDF to JPG](https://convertfile.io/pdf-to-jpg)
- [PDF to PNG](https://convertfile.io/pdf-to-png)
- [PDF to TIFF](https://convertfile.io/pdf-to-tiff)
- [PDF to Markdown](https://convertfile.io/pdf-to-md)

## Also into Plain Text

- [Word to Plain Text](https://convertfile.io/docx-to-txt)
- [PowerPoint to Plain Text](https://convertfile.io/pptx-to-txt)
- [OpenDocument Text to Plain Text](https://convertfile.io/odt-to-txt)
- [RTF to Plain Text](https://convertfile.io/rtf-to-txt)
- [EPUB to Plain Text](https://convertfile.io/epub-to-txt)
- [Markdown to Plain Text](https://convertfile.io/md-to-txt)
- [HTML to Plain Text](https://convertfile.io/html-to-txt)

## The formats

- [PDF](https://convertfile.io/formats/pdf)
- [Plain Text](https://convertfile.io/formats/txt)

Source: https://convertfile.io/pdf-to-txt