Free online tool

PDF Layout Inspector

Inspect a PDF's page sizes and text positions. See where words are placed and how they are read from the file.

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What does PDF layout inspection reveal?

A PDF stores positioned content instead of a word processor's normal document flow. This report lists page sizes and word bounding boxes so you can examine extraction order and placement.

Your file

Your file

Drop a file here, or choose from your device.

PDF · Up to 8 MB total

This tool sends your input to a separate processing service. Temporary job files are deleted when processing ends. Only send content you are comfortable uploading.

Separate processing · Automatic file cleanup

Your result

A little clarity, right here.

Choose a file and run the tool. Your result will appear here, ready to download.

Three simple steps

How to use PDF Layout Inspector

  1. Choose your input and review the processing notice.

  2. Send the job to the isolated processing service.

  3. Review the result and download your export.

Common questions

Good to know

Understand the result.
Keep the original.

Is this tool free, and are my files uploaded?

This tool is free with no account required. When you run the tool, your input goes to a separate processing service. Temporary files are deleted when the job ends. You can download the result to your device.

What are the limits and details?

This reads existing text objects and does not run OCR. Bounding boxes are reported in PDF points from the top-left. Up to 30 selected pages and 20,000 words are included.

Limits: one file up to 8 MB; 500,000 characters per text field. One job runs at a time on the worker, with a two-minute limit.