PDF to Text

About

PDF to Text extracts clean, structured text from any PDF you open in Chrome — including the ones where Chrome's native
  copy-paste produces gibberish.

  How it works:
  1. Navigate to any .pdf URL in Chrome
  2. Click the PDF to Text toolbar icon → "Open in PDF to Text"
  3. The extension downloads the PDF and runs a WebAssembly text extraction engine locally in your browser
  4. Copy the clean text, download as .md, or let browser automation agents read it via window.__glyph

  Features:
  • Clean text extraction from PDFs with broken Unicode mappings
  • Three output formats: plain text, basic Markdown, structured Markdown with YAML frontmatter, auto-generated TOC,
  heading detection, and token counts
  • One-click copy, copy as .md, or download as .md file
  • Font-size-based heading detection + numbered section pattern matching
  • Code block detection with language hints (C, Python, JavaScript, Rust)
  • Math formula and diagram regions auto-fenced for clean rendering
  • Recent extraction history in the popup — revisit any PDF you've extracted
  • Agentic API: browser automation tools can read window.__glyph.markdown.structured directly
  • Background pre-fetch: starts downloading the PDF while you're still viewing it in Chrome's native viewer

  Privacy:
  Everything runs locally. No data leaves your device except anonymous performance metrics (extraction time, page count —
  never PDF content or URLs). Full privacy policy: https://jordancoin.github.io/pdf-to-text/#privacy

  For developers and AI agents:
  PDF to Text exposes a page-world global (window.__glyph) so any browser automation tool — Playwright, Puppeteer, Claude
  in Chrome, Cursor — can programmatically extract markdown from PDFs by URL. No API key, no rate limit, no server.