Artificial PDF — PDF to Text

Stop retyping. Start extracting.

Artificial PDF turns any PDF, webpage, or photo into clean, editable text in seconds — powered by a Rust extraction engine and on-device OCR. No uploads, no cloud, no waiting.

The Challenge

Extracting text from documents is still painfully manual for most people. Copy-paste breaks formatting on text PDFs, fails entirely on scanned documents, and retyping content by hand wastes hours. Web clutters articles with ads and chrome, and re-typing from a photo of a document is slow and error-prone.

The Solution

Artificial PDF gives you one fast, private workflow for turning anything readable into editable text:

• Text PDFs — Lightning-fast extraction that preserves headings, lists, and reading order.
• Scanned PDFs — On-device OCR reads what copy-paste can’t.
• Mixed PDFs — Auto-detects text and scanned pages and handles both in a single pass.
• Web URLs — Strips away ads and clutter, keeps the article.
• Camera — Snap a photo of any document and get editable text instantly.

Edit Before You Export

Extracted content opens in a clean editor. Fix a title, remove a section, adjust formatting — then export exactly what you need.

• Markdown mode — Edit with raw syntax (##, **, -) for full control.
• Rich text mode — Visual editing with bold, italic, lists, and undo/redo.

Export to Any Format

One extraction, every format you need:

• PDF — Clean, reformatted document.
• Word (.docx) — Ready for Microsoft Word or Google Docs.
• Excel (.xlsx) — Tables preserved in spreadsheet format.
• Plain Text (.txt) — Universal, lightweight.
• Markdown (.md) — Perfect for Notion, Obsidian, or GitHub.
• Image (.jpg) — Screenshot-quality capture.

Built for Speed

The extraction engine is written in Rust and compiled natively for your device, so most PDFs process in under 100ms. Scanned documents use Google ML Kit OCR — entirely on-device, with no internet connection required.

Privacy First

Your documents never leave your device. All extraction and OCR happen locally, so sensitive material stays private while still giving you the speed of a powerful extraction tool.