Why is the output empty?

Scanned/image-only PDFs have no text layer. Use OCR elsewhere, or try PDF → Image.

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Extract selectable text from a PDF in your browser. Scanned PDFs without a text layer may return nothing.

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Extracts selectable text · scanned PDFs may have no text · runs in your browser

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