Free tools, nothing uploaded.

Small, in-browser utilities for the questions that come up before you ever call the API — what's actually in this file, and can txtfetch get text out of it.

PDF text-layer check

Drop a PDF and find out whether it has a real text layer, is a scan that needs OCR, or is a mixed document — nothing uploaded.

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File type inspector

Drop any file and see what txtfetch actually detects from its bytes — including when the extension is lying about the real format.

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