Vellum extracts the text of a PDF document and returns it as a .txt file organized page by page, ready to reuse in a word processor or another tool. The extraction relies on the text actually present in the file, with no external artificial intelligence service involved. Processing happens entirely in your browser.
The text is returned as a .txt file, organized page by page, ready to reuse in a word processor or any other tool. It is the text actually present in the file that gets pulled out, with no formatting.
No, extraction relies solely on text already present in the PDF file, not on image recognition. If the document is a scan with no underlying text, nothing will come out: run it through Vellum’s OCR tool first.
Yes, the tool is free with no usage limit. Extraction runs entirely in your browser, without sending the PDF to a server.
Vellum — free PDF tools whose processing stays on your device.