📄 Convert PDF to Text by cloudHQ
Convert any PDF, scan, or image in your Google Drive™ into clean plain text, with built-in OCR, optional redaction of sensitive data, and big savings on AI token costs.

⚠️ Problem:
PDFs look great for people, but they are a problem for software and AI:

- Scanned PDFs, photos, and screenshots contain no readable text at all, just pixels
- The text inside a PDF is scattered, hard to search, and hard to edit
- Feeding a PDF to ChatGPT or any AI burns far more tokens, and far more money, than plain text alone
- Extracting text by hand, one file at a time, wastes hours

And sensitive data, including names, emails, Social Security numbers, and account numbers, gets copied around with no easy way to strip it out.

💡 Solution:
Convert PDF to Text by cloudHQ® is a PDF to text converter and image to text converter built directly into Google Drive™. Extract clean, searchable plain text from any PDF, scanned document, or image in one click. In just a couple of clicks you can:

- Convert a single file or an entire folder to TXT
- Use built-in OCR to convert images to text, including photos, screenshots, and scanned PDFs
- Redact sensitive information before the text is ever saved
- Keep one combined text file per folder, or one for your whole Google Drive™

⭐ KEY FEATURES ⭐

🔤 One-click PDF to text conversion
Convert any PDF or image in your Google Drive™ to a clean TXT file.
Pick one file, several, or a whole folder.
Originals are never changed; the extracted text is always a separate file.

📷 Image to text converter with powerful OCR
Scanned PDFs, photos, faxes, and screenshots are no problem.
Convert images to text using a massively scalable OCR engine that reads every page.
Works as an image to text converter for PNG, JPG, and other image formats, just like a regular PDF.

🛡️ Optional PII redaction
Switch on redaction and choose exactly what to remove from the extracted text:

- Person names
- Email addresses
- Phone numbers
- Mailing addresses
- Social Security numbers
- Bank account numbers
- Credit card numbers
- Any custom information you specify
- Redacted values are replaced before the text is saved, so sensitive details never reach the TXT file.

💸 Lower your AI token costs
Plain text is far leaner than a PDF. PDFs carry fonts, layout, and images that all count as tokens, and scanned PDFs need an expensive vision model just to be read.
Converting to text first can dramatically shrink the tokens you send to ChatGPT or any AI API, so every prompt is cheaper and faster, and more content fits in the model's context window.

🤖 AI-ready and ChatGPT-ready text extraction
- Clean extracted text is the format AI tools work with best, with no layout noise and no jumbled columns.
- Build training data, knowledge bases, and Q&A context files from your document archive.
- Combine with redaction to produce text that is safe to send to any AI service.

🗂️ One combined text file per folder
Optionally keep a single text file in each folder that automatically collects the text of every PDF or image you convert there.
Search a whole folder at once, or hand the one file to an AI assistant.

🌐 One text file for your entire Google Drive™
Optionally keep a single Drive-wide text file that accumulates everything you convert, anywhere in your Drive™.
It is the simplest searchable knowledge base you will ever build, and it is always current.
Re-converting a file updates its section in place instead of duplicating it.

🔎 Make every document searchable
Once your PDFs and images are converted to text, find any clause, name, or account number in seconds.
Perfect for audits, due diligence, and investigations.

🧾 Convert receipts and screenshots into data
Use the image to text converter on a folder of receipt photos, invoices, and screenshots to produce text your bookkeeping, expense, or AI tools can actually parse.

📦 Batch conversion plus files from your computer
Convert an entire Google Drive™ folder in one run.
Mix in files uploaded from your computer in the same batch.

💾 Saved to Drive™ and downloaded
Every converted file is saved to your Google Drive™ next to the source and downloaded to your computer at the same time.

👥 Built for teams
Deploy across your entire Google Workspace™ domain.
Admins can install and manage it for everyone in one step.

💼 WHO IT IS FOR
- AI and data teams building training sets and retrieval pipelines
- Compliance and audit teams that need every document searchable
- Legal professionals working with scanned contracts and discovery files
- Accountants and bookkeepers converting receipts and invoices into data
- Researchers and archivists digitizing papers and records
- HR teams processing resumes and personnel files with PII redacted
- Operations and admin teams logging forms, purchase orders, and delivery notes
- Small business owners converting everyday paperwork into searchable text

🛡️ SECURITY AND PRIVACY 🛡️

📦 Your files stay in your Google Drive™
We never keep your documents. Files are streamed from your Drive™ only for the moment needed to convert them, then removed from our processing servers.

🔐 OAuth based authorization
We never see or store your Google™ password. Access is handled through Google™ OAuth.

🔒 Encryption in transit
All data is protected using HTTPS and TLS.

🎯 Limited file access
The app works only on the files you explicitly select. It does not roam your entire Drive™.

🏢 Enterprise infrastructure
Runs on secure, hardened systems trusted by business users worldwide.

⚡ HOW IT WORKS
1️⃣ Install the app
2️⃣ Connect your Google Drive™
3️⃣ Pick a PDF or image, or a whole folder, in your Google Drive™ or upload from your computer
4️⃣ Optionally turn on redaction and the combined text file options
5️⃣ Click Convert to Text
6️⃣ Get clean TXT files in your Google Drive™ and on your computer


🎁 FREE TRIAL
Start with a free trial limited to 20 files.
No credit card required.

🔗 LINKS
cloudHQ website https://www.cloudhq.net
App website https://www.convert-pdf-to-text.com
Pricing https://www.convert-pdf-to-text.com/pricing
Support https://support.cloudhq.net/category/browser-extensions/convert-pdf-to-text
Blog https://blog.cloudhq.net


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