PDF to Text Converter (with Hindi OCR)

By the MuftTools teamUpdated October 2026How we checkSources: Unicode Devanagari chart, Tesseract OCR project

Get clean, editable text out of any PDF

Copying text from a PDF often goes wrong. Lines break in the middle of sentences, scanned pages give you nothing at all, and Hindi documents turn into strings like "Hkkjr ljdkj". This PDF to text converter handles all three. It takes out the text layer of normal PDFs and rebuilds the paragraphs, reads scanned pages with OCR in English or Hindi, and converts Hindi typed in the old Kruti Dev font into proper Unicode Hindi.

It is made for the documents people in India actually deal with: circulars and orders from government offices, court documents, exam notices, bank statements, rent agreements, college notes and old Hindi files. The PDF is processed in your browser. It is not uploaded, so you can use it for private papers, and there is no sign-up, page limit or watermark.

How to convert a PDF to text

1. Choose the PDF. Tap the box or drop the file. If it is password-protected, type the password when asked.
2. Read the result. The text appears at once, page by page. Small labels show which pages had a text layer and which are scanned.
3. Read scanned pages. If some pages are scanned, choose the language and tap Read scanned pages. The first time, the OCR data downloads once.
4. Fix Hindi if needed. If Hindi shows as English letters, we switch on Convert Kruti Dev text to Unicode Hindi for you. You can turn it on or off yourself.
5. Choose the layout. Join into paragraphs for documents you will paste into Word or WhatsApp, or Keep every line for addresses, forms and tables.
6. Save it. Edit the text if you like, then copy it or download it as Word (.docx) or plain text (.txt).

Three kinds of PDF, three ways to read them

Why Kruti Dev text comes out as gibberish

Before Unicode Hindi was common, many offices typed Hindi with fonts such as Kruti Dev and DevLys. These fonts draw Devanagari shapes on top of the ordinary English keyboard letters, so pressing d shows क and Hkkjr shows भारत. The file still stores the English letters. When a PDF made this way is copied or extracted, you get the English letters back, which no other program can read as Hindi.

Unicode is the international standard that gives every Devanagari letter and matra its own code (the Devanagari block runs from U+0900 to U+097F). Unicode Hindi can be searched, translated, typed on phones and pasted into any modern app. Our converter maps the Kruti Dev keys back to Unicode letters and puts the ि matra and the reph (the र् written above the line) in the right place, since Kruti Dev typists enter those out of reading order.

The conversion works on each paragraph separately, so English paragraphs in the same PDF are left alone. Rare symbols and some unusual conjuncts may not convert perfectly, so read through names and important words. Use Show the original letters if you need the raw text.

Tips for scanned PDFs

• Choose the right language before reading. Use Hindi + English only for pages that really mix both scripts.
• Quality in, quality out. A clean 300 DPI scan reads far better than a phone photo saved as PDF. We render each page at up to 300 DPI for OCR, but we cannot add detail that the scan does not have.
• Handwriting is not supported well. Filled-in forms will give you the printed labels but usually not the handwritten answers.
• Long documents take time. OCR takes a few seconds per page on a phone. You can stop at any point and keep the pages already read.
• Jumbled Unicode Hindi? Some PDFs store Hindi in drawing order. We fix the common misplaced ि automatically. If a page still reads oddly, use Read all pages with OCR to read it from the page image instead.

Paragraphs, lines and page markers

A PDF does not store paragraphs, only words at positions on the page. We rebuild them by looking at the gap between lines: a normal gap joins the lines into one paragraph, a bigger gap starts a new one, and a word split with a hyphen at the end of a line is joined back together. Numbered and bulleted lines stay on their own lines. If you prefer the exact line breaks of the original, choose Keep every line. Page markers such as --- Page 2 --- help you find your place in long files; switch them off for a continuous text.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Assuming the text is perfect. Always check numbers, names and dates against the PDF, especially after OCR.
• Expecting the layout to survive. The output is text only. Columns, tables, images, stamps and signatures are not copied.
• Converting English with the Kruti Dev option. If the original text was already correct, turn the option off.

Privacy

Your PDF is opened by the PDF reader built into this page and never leaves your device. OCR also runs locally: the engine and the language data download once (about 1.5 MB for the engine, 2 MB for English and 0.9 MB for Hindi) and are saved in your browser for next time. We do not keep your files or the text. This is an independent tool, not affiliated with the makers of Kruti Dev or any PDF software. To turn PDF pages into pictures instead, use PDF to JPG. For text in photos and screenshots, use Image to Text.