Bunch·3–4 min
Clean text from PDF
Copy-paste from a PDF and you almost always get a mess: hyphens at the end of every line, random capitalisation, page footers in the middle. This bunch is the pipeline that turns it back into prose you can actually use.
The workflow
4 steps. Click any one to jump straight in.
- 1PDF to TextPDFPull the text out of the PDF.
- 2Find & ReplaceTextStrip random line breaks and weird whitespace.
- 3Case ConverterTextFix the case if everything came out CAPS or lower.
- 4Word CounterTextConfirm the final word count for whatever you're doing next.
Ready to go?
Open PDF to Text — the bunch will guide you the rest of the way.