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Our reviewer found behaviour consistent with malware, but not enough to confirm it. Treat this extension as untrusted until it has been re-reviewed.

1 medium-severity finding in this extension’s code

1 medium
22 indicators
1 version analysed

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What our analysis found

PDF to TXT is rated caution by Extension Auditor. Our code review reported 1 finding (1 medium), led by unauthorized data collection. It comes from a publisher with 2 extensions and was last updated in June 2026.

Key findings

  • Medium

    Unauthorized Data Collection

    User-uploaded document content (scanned PDF pages rendered as JPEG images) is transmitted to [domain withheld] on every OCR call. While this domain is declared in host_permissions and serves as the extension's backend, the CWS privacy disclosure explicitly states 'none declared' for data collection—meaning users are given no notice that their potentially sensitive documents are processed on a remote server. Given that the publisher's only other extension is flagged as malicious, the possibility that a future update could log or exfiltrate these document images server-side cannot be ruled out from code review alone.

Analyst notes

The extension's code is functionally coherent: it uses the bundled library (which accounts for virtually all ML signals—58 fromCharCode, 5 eval, large file size) for local text extraction, and falls back to a declared backend at [domain withheld] only for pages that require OCR. The bundled manifest matches the published manifest exactly, there is no hidden exfiltration, no code injection, and no credential theft. However, the publisher (idev.project1) has a 100% malicious rate on their only other extension, which cannot be dismissed: even clean-looking extensions from publishers with a proven history of malware carry elevated risk of a poisoned future update. Additionally, user document content (scanned PDF pages rendered as JPEG) is transmitted to the remote OCR backend without any CWS data-collection disclosure ('none declared'), and the extension is extremely new (60 days, 265 users, updated 9 days ago). The third-party chrome-stats score independently corroborates recency and low-trust signals. Code is clean; publisher context is not.

PDF to TXT

PDF to TXT Chrome extension security report

ID: chfcfpmepbdancpalddmcbcejhciaocp

Supported Languages

🇪🇹Amharic
🇸🇦Arabic
🇧🇩Bengali
🇧🇷Brazilian Portuguese
🇧🇬Bulgarian
🇪🇸Catalan
🇨🇳Chinese (Simplified)
🇹🇼Chinese (Traditional)
🇭🇷Croatian
🇨🇿Czech
🇩🇰Danish
🇳🇱Dutch
🇺🇸English
🇪🇪Estonian
🇵🇭Filipino
🇫🇮Finnish
🇫🇷French
🇩🇪German
🇬🇷Greek
🇮🇳Gujarati
🇮🇱Hebrew
🇮🇳Hindi
🇭🇺Hungarian
🇮🇩Indonesian
🇮🇹Italian
🇯🇵Japanese
🇮🇳Kannada
🇰🇷Korean
🇲🇽Latin American Spanish
🇱🇻Latvian
🇱🇹Lithuanian
🇲🇾Malay
🇮🇳Malayalam
🇮🇳Marathi
🇳🇴Norwegian
🇮🇷Persian
🇵🇱Polish
🇵🇹Portuguese
🇷🇴Romanian
🇷🇺Russian
🇷🇸Serbian
🇸🇰Slovak
🇸🇮Slovenian
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🇰🇪Swahili
🇸🇪Swedish
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Extension Info & Metadata

Status
Active
Version
2.1.2
Size
0.99 MB
Rating
5.0/5
Reviews
5
Users
338
Type
Extension
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
Category
Tools
Price
Free
Featured
Yes
Visibility
Listed
Mature
No
By Google
No
Trusted
No
This publisherTrack record
2extensions
All still listed

Publisher Contextual Analysis

Author
idev.project1
MX records exist
Yes
Domain exists
Yes
Is disposable
No
Is role-based
No
Mailbox exists
Yes
Extensions
2
Active
2
Obsolete
0
Listed
2
Unlisted
0
Users
375

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Install growth

Item
Type
Severity
Description
offscreen
Permission
High
This permission creates hidden browser documents with full DOM access. Rated High because it can run background operations invisibly, potentially executing malicious code without user awareness.
storage
Permission
Medium
This permission allows storing data locally in the browser. Rated Medium because it can persist sensitive user data, track user activities over time, and potentially store malicious payloads.
https://text-extract.online/*
Host
Medium
Host permission — access limited to this URL pattern.
sidePanel
Permission
Low
This permission adds custom panels to the browser interface. Rated Low because it only affects browser UI elements and cannot access page content.
  • 1 medium

The file, code excerpt and explanation behind each finding are part of the full report. No conclusion has been withheld — only the evidence. The verdict above already reflects everything found here.

1 medium-severity finding in this extension’s code

1 medium
22 indicators
1 version analysed

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About this extension

Fast pdf to text converter in your browser, pdf to txt helps extract content instantly using a reliable pdf text extractor.

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🚀 This product is a full-featured Chrome extension created to extract text from documents and reliably convert pdf to txt format for everyday professional use. It is designed for users who constantly work with documents on Chrome and need a stable pdf to txt converter that produces clean, readable output. The app helps turn pdf into text without complex settings, extra software, or manual copying. ⚙️ This tool functions as a browser-based pdf converter to txt that allows you to streamline your workflow right in Chrome. You can save an extracted output file, or generate structured data that works seamlessly with editors, databases, and annotation tools. 🔻 Main advantages 1. Drag-n-drop UI 2. One-click to get results 3. Precision-focused processing for everyday use 4. Support for file export 5. Fast and stable conversion performance 6. Integrated with Google Drive for your convenience 🪛 This tool works as a powerful pdf text extractor 📌 Universal for all types of e-documents, including scanned files and images 📌 It can scrape text from documents containing handwritten, complex layouts, or mixed image content 📌 The pdf file convert to text ensures that the document structure is preserved in a readable format 🏁 To start using the extension 1️⃣ Open any e-document in Google Chrome 2️⃣ Click the extension icon 3️⃣ Choose output conversion 4️⃣ Download or copy the resulting file This step-by-step flow clearly demonstrates how to convert a pdf to txt without technical knowledge. 🗒️ Built-in OCR ensures that both digital and scanned documents are handled correctly 📄 It can extract text from scanned file pages 📄 You can copy text from scanned elements and extract text from picture-based pages 📄 Our OCR tool can analyze all the data on every scanned page 🖼️ Image processing capabilities include: ⚙️ image to text recognition ⚙️ copy text from image with one click ⚙️ online character reader functionality ⚙️ Take a screenshot of a page fragment 👇 Typical use cases for converting pdf to txt include: * Transform your file for editing and reuse * Extract data from a huge scanned file * Make pdf searchable for document archives * Simplify data extraction from accounting books that require numeric values 🎯 Our project is the ultimate solution for professionals who manage heavy workloads 🌀 High-Volume Operations: Ideally suited for environments where users frequently execute a pdf to txt convert task across massive digital archives. 🌀 Data Consistency: Analysts and accountants rely on the standardized pdf txt output to ensure seamless integration with financial software and spreadsheets. 🌀 Academic & Content Workflows: Students and managers benefit from the reliable pdf to text converter performance, ensuring accuracy for every project 💻 This comprehensive plain text converter combines multiple essential functions into efficient tool ⚡ Reliably extract text from pdf documents ⚡ Operates effectively as a digital text scanner ⚡ Perform advanced pdf text recognition on embedded content 💾 This service supports modern digital workflows where text accessibility is critical. 💽 With pdf to text file output, you can integrate documents into Google Drive, Outlook, and another file store service. 💽 The ability to transform pdf to txt ensures long-term usability of stored documents. 📍 Optimize your performance with the features below 🔥 High-accuracy recognition 🔥 Clean, structured output 🔥 A user-friendly interface that is always available in your browser 🔥 Rapid processing speed 🫶 Additional supported workflows include ➤ convert pdf file to txt for backups ➤ convert files into a lightweight format for migration ➤ export pdf to txt for compliance storage ➤ convert pdf to txt file for lightweight sharing ❗ FAQs about the extension ❓ How does the app protect content on my files ? 🔒 Privacy is the core principle of our solution 🔒Our secure backend processes files in real-time and immediately purges them, ensuring zero data retention. 🔒This allows you to safely change pdf to txt knowing that sensitive documents are never stored or archived on our servers. ❓ Can I use it for free? ✅ Yes, you have free access to our project. ❓ Is it possible to send only a specific section of a file ? ✅ You can take a screenshot from your browser using our extension. ❓ Do I need to sign up or create an account to use it ? ✅ Since your personal data is not stored in our service, this is not necessary. ❓ Can I copy text from a protected file? ✅ Yes, if the permissions allow it. Otherwise, you'll need to grant access to the service. ❓ Will the content structure be preserved? ✅ The content structure will be optimal. In the worst case, you may overwrite the output yourself. 💫 This product delivers an all-in-one solution by combining ease of use, advanced OCR capabilities, and powerful content parsing into a single Chrome tool.

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1 medium-severity finding in this extension’s code

1 medium
22 indicators
1 version analysed

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