Upload a PDF, choose whether to include coordinates and font sizes, and the tool returns a JSON document with one entry per page and one entry per line of text. Copy it or download a .json file.
A page count, then for each page its width, height and every line of text. With coordinates enabled, each line also carries its x/y position on the page and its font size.
Positions let you reconstruct layout — identify columns, headers and footers, or find the value that sits to the right of a known label. Turn them off if you only want the words.
PDF points, measured from the bottom-left corner of the page. There are 72 points to an inch.
No — a scan has no text layer to extract. OCR the document first.