Sometimes you just need the words, not the layout. Filemorph pulls every line of text out of a PDF on your iPhone — free, on-device, and ready to paste anywhere.
Quoting a paragraph from a report, pulling a phone number out of a scanned form, or moving a PDF's content into a notes app: none of it needs the PDF's formatting, just the text. Filemorph reads the PDF locally and extracts every line into a plain text file.
Filemorph uses Apple's PDFKit to read the text layer of the PDF directly, in the order it appears on the page. This works for any PDF that already has selectable text — reports, exports, contracts, ebooks. A scanned PDF made from a photo or a fax has no text layer to extract, so run OCR Overlay first to add one, then convert to text.
In the app: Convert → To Text.
Plain text pastes cleanly into notes apps, messages and search boxes without carrying over a PDF's fonts, columns or page breaks. It is also far smaller than the original PDF, and every word in it is searchable the moment it lands on your device.
Yes. Unlike web converters that upload your files to a server, Filemorph converts every file locally using Apple's frameworks. Nothing leaves your device, and it works with no internet connection. This conversion is in the free tier.
Yes. PDF to Text is in Filemorph's free tier, with no limit on file size or number of conversions.
Only if the PDF already has a text layer. A scanned page is just an image, so run OCR Overlay first (on-device, using Apple's Vision framework) to add searchable text, then extract it.
No. Text extraction returns the words in reading order, without columns, tables or page breaks. For a document you can still edit with its structure intact, convert to Word or Markdown instead.
Free, on-device, no upload. Plus 300+ more file operations.
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