PDF Text Studio — inspect, extract & OCR any PDF

One workspace for every text job: inspect page counts, formats, versions and metadata instantly (with CSV export), extract the full text layer to clean TXT, or detect scanned vs digital PDFs and pull out searchable text with a confidence score.

How to PDF Text Studio — inspect, extract & OCR any PDF

  1. Step 1. Choose a job: Inspect, Extract Text, or OCR Text Extractor.
  2. Step 2. Upload one or more PDF files.
  3. Step 3. Pick the output mode (combined file or per-page).
  4. Step 4. Execute and download the text, report, or CSV.

Frequently asked questions

What is PDF Text Studio?

A single workspace that replaces three separate tools: PDF Inspector (page count, format, version, metadata, health report with CSV export), Extract Text (plain .txt export), and OCR Text Extractor (scanned vs digital detection with a confidence score).

How many OCR runs do free users get?

Free users get a small daily OCR trial budget (3 runs per day). Extracting text and inspecting documents are free and unlimited. Pro removes all caps and unlocks unlimited OCR on every document.

Can I extract text from a scanned PDF?

The Extract Text job reads the digital text layer. If your PDF is scanned, switch to the OCR Text Extractor job, which detects scanned pages and flags them, then extracts any embedded text layer.

Are my PDFs uploaded to a server?

Inspect previews run 100% in your browser. When you hit Execute, files are processed in memory on our servers and auto-scrubbed within 45 minutes — nothing is stored long-term.