PDF · Windows 10 and 11

Convert PDF to Text on Windows, offline.

Copying text out of a PDF usually gives broken lines and stray page numbers. Crustify gives you the text in reading order, ready to search, quote or paste into an AI tool.

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Many files at once
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How to convert PDF to Text

Select your PDF filesIn File Explorer or on the desktop. One file, or a hundred.
Start dragging, then tap ShiftThe Convert wheel opens right under your cursor, with every format this file can become.
Drop on TXTCrustify converts on your PC and saves the result next to the original. That's it.

First time? Download Crustify and install it. It waits in the tray, using about 3 MB of memory, until you drag a file.

Convert PDF

Convert to TXT

What you get

Text comes out in reading order with paragraphs, headings and lists, and words split across lines are joined again.
Page numbers and running headers are left out.
Scanned pages are read with Windows' built-in text recognition, offline.
Each Text is saved next to its original, with the same name.
Your original file is never changed. If the new name is taken, Crustify adds (1), (2) and so on.
Converts many files at once, each into its own new file.

About the formats

PDF Portable Document Format

Looks the same on every device and printer, which is why forms, invoices, papers and e-tickets come as PDFs. That same fixed layout makes PDFs hard to edit or to reuse text and pictures from.

Text Plain text (TXT)

Just the words, with no formatting at all. Opens in anything, searches easily, and is the simplest way to copy text into another app or an AI tool.

Questions

PDF to Text, answered.

Can I keep the headings and lists?

Yes: convert to Markdown (MD) instead. You get the same text with headings, bold and lists marked up.

Does text recognition need the internet?

No. It uses the text recognition built into Windows 10 and 11, on your PC.

Is Crustify free?

You can use everything free for 7 days, with no key or card. After that it's ₹49 once for a lifetime licence on up to 2 PCs. No subscription.

Convert PDF to Text without uploading a thing.

Crustify converts images, video, audio, PDFs and documents on your PC, offline.