Your files stay on your Mac.
Convertessa reads the embedded text layer in your PDF and writes it straight to a .txt file — no upload, no server, no network. Run it on one document or an entire folder in a single command. Every file stays on your Mac.
Drag one or more PDFs into Convertessa, or point it at a folder to queue the whole batch at once.
Pick Plain Text from the output format list. Convertessa will extract the text layer from each PDF and write a .txt file alongside the original.
Click Convert. Your .txt files appear next to the originals — PDF metadata stripped, text ready to copy, search, or pipe into another tool.
Images, audio, video, documents, archives and eBooks — all converted natively, right on your Mac.
Pick a format you have — see everything Convertessa can turn it into.
Convert hundreds of files at once with per-type group defaults and individual overrides.
First-class support for HEIC, AVIF and WebP — encode and decode, both ways. Read JPEG XL and a dozen more modern formats too.
Drop files anywhere on the window. Native, instant, and exactly what you’d expect on a Mac.
Dial in compression, resolution and bitrate. Keep originals pristine or shrink for sharing.
Never overwrite a file by accident. Convertessa appends safe suffixes automatically.
Every job is logged locally. Re-run a previous conversion or revisit recent outputs in a click.
Bundle your converted files straight into a single ZIP, TAR or 7z — packaged and ready to share the moment a job finishes.
Right-click any file in Finder and choose Convert. A Quick Action handles it on the spot — no need to open the app first.
Shrink Convertessa to a tidy mini window that tucks into a corner — just a drop zone and a format picker for quick, one-off conversions.
No cloud. No account. No upload. Every conversion happens entirely on-device, using the power already in your Mac. What you convert is nobody’s business but yours.
Script conversions, wire them into your build, or batch a folder from the terminal. The same engine, no GUI required.
Read the full CLI documentation →Shrink Convertessa down to a small, focused window — drop, convert, done, with your recent conversions one click away.
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel
New formats, new features, and fixes — every release, on the record.
No. Convertessa extracts the text layer already embedded in a PDF. Scanned pages are stored as images with no text layer, so the output will be empty. Use a PDF exported from a word processor or typesetting tool.
Yes. The output .txt file contains only the extracted text — PDF metadata such as author, creation date, and document title is not carried over.
Yes. Run convertessa /path/to/folder --to txt and Convertessa converts every PDF in the folder, writing a matching .txt file for each one.