diff --git a/datasette_extract/static/extract.css b/datasette_extract/static/extract.css
index 82fcd80..dd3d4e8 100644
--- a/datasette_extract/static/extract.css
+++ b/datasette_extract/static/extract.css
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 form.extract-form label {
     width: auto;
     padding-top: 0.3em;
+}
+textarea.drag-over {
+    background-color: pink;
 }
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diff --git a/datasette_extract/templates/extract_create_table.html b/datasette_extract/templates/extract_create_table.html
index e8f9ba0..a49c7e0 100644
--- a/datasette_extract/templates/extract_create_table.html
+++ b/datasette_extract/templates/extract_create_table.html
@@ -29,12 +29,89 @@ <h1>Extract data and create a new table in {{ database }}</h1>
       </label>
     </p>
   {% endfor %}
+  <p><label for="id_content">Paste data here, or drag and drop text or PDF files:</label></p>
   <p>
-    <textarea name="content" style="width: 100%; height: 20em;" placeholder="Paste content here"></textarea>
+    <textarea name="content" id="id_content" style="width: 100%; height: 20em;" placeholder="Paste content here"></textarea>
   </p>
   <p>
     <input type="submit" value="Extract">
   </p>
 </form>
 
-{% endblock %}
+<script type="module">
+import pdfjs from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/pdfjs-dist@4.0.379/+esm';
+pdfjsLib.GlobalWorkerOptions.workerSrc = 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/pdfjs-dist@4.0.379/build/pdf.worker.mjs';
+
+async function extractText(pdf) {
+  const loadingTask = pdfjsLib.getDocument(pdf);
+  const pdfDocument = await loadingTask.promise;
+
+  const numPages = pdfDocument.numPages;
+  let pageTextPromises = [];
+
+  for (let i = 1; i <= numPages; i++) {
+    pageTextPromises.push(
+      pdfDocument.getPage(i).then((page) => page.getTextContent())
+    );
+  }
+
+  const pageTexts = await Promise.all(pageTextPromises);
+  return pageTexts
+    .map((item) => item.items.map((text) => text.str).join(" "))
+    .join("\n\n");
+}
+
+const textarea = document.getElementById('id_content');
+
+function dragOverHandler(event) {
+    event.preventDefault();
+    event.stopPropagation();
+    textarea.classList.add('drag-over');
+}
+function dragLeaveHandler(event) {
+    event.preventDefault();
+    event.stopPropagation();
+    textarea.classList.remove('drag-over');
+}
+async function dropHandler(event) {
+    event.preventDefault();
+    event.stopPropagation();
+    textarea.classList.remove('drag-over');
+    const includeFilenames = event.dataTransfer.files.length > 1;
+
+    var promises = Array.from(event.dataTransfer.files).map(file => {
+      return new Promise(async (resolve, reject) => {
+        let contentToAdd = '';
+        if (includeFilenames) {
+          contentToAdd += file.name + '\n\n';
+        }
+        if (file.type == 'application/pdf') {
+          const pdfContent = await extractText(new Uint8Array(await file.arrayBuffer()));
+          contentToAdd += pdfContent;
+          resolve(contentToAdd);
+        } else {
+          // Try to read the file as text
+          const reader = new FileReader();
+          reader.onload = (e) => {
+            contentToAdd += e.target.result;
+            resolve(contentToAdd);
+          };
+          reader.onerror = (e) => {
+            reject(new Error('Failed to read file'));
+          };
+          reader.readAsText(file);
+        }
+      });
+    });
+    Promise.all(promises).then(contents => {
+      textarea.value = contents.join('\n\n');
+    });
+}
+
+textarea.addEventListener('dragover', dragOverHandler);
+textarea.addEventListener('dragleave', dragLeaveHandler);
+textarea.addEventListener('drop', dropHandler);
+
+</script>
+
+{% endblock %}
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