PDF to TXT

How to use it

1. 1.Check that the PDF's text can be selected. A scan needs OCR before there is anything to extract.
2. 2.Convert, and look at the reading order, the characters, the page boundaries, and any repeated headers.
3. 3.Download the text, clean up the layout leftovers, and check names, numbers, and special characters against the PDF.

Options

• Stripping the presentation leaves content that is easy to search, diff, or feed to something else.
• Page separators keep some trace of where each piece came from.

Limitations

• Tables, columns, equations, images, and typography have no plain-text equivalent.
• Text stored as positioned fragments, or an odd font encoding, can come out scrambled.

Common questions