The standard format for sharing and preserving information across organizations is PDF documents, but sometimes it's required to extract text from a PDF file. Artificial intelligence document processing has revolutionized how organizations handle text extraction, offering highly efficient and accurate solutions even for complex PDF files. There are multiple ways to extract text from PDFs, including copy-and-pasting the text, using online PDF-to-text conversion tools, and automated OCR software that uses AI and machine learning technologies to recognize text from scanned documents or images within a PDF. Automated text extraction tools have the added benefit of being secure as they are GDPR and SOC compliant and adhere to stringent data protection laws. The best way to extract text from a PDF depends on the complexity of the PDF, with copy-pasting suitable for one-off instances of extracting text from simple text-only PDFs, online converter tools better suited for frequent extraction, and automated OCR software ideal for complex PDFs with forms, tabular data, and complex formatting.