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PDF format files are handy for viewing and printing. Sometimes, you may want to extract text out from a PDF file and use it in your word documents, web pages and other applications. One of the methods is open the PDF document with Adobe Reader and use the Copy and Paste functions to extract the text from the PDF file. This process is very tedious and time consuming. What if you need to extract text from more than one PDF files?
PDF2Text Pilot is a handy text extraction tool that allows you to extract text from multiple PDF files with just a single click. This method is much faster than the usual method of using the copy and paste functions. Plus, you can extract the text from multiple PDF files in one go. To run the text extraction, you don’t necessary need to have Adobe Reader installed on the computer. This freeware provides access to the text content in PDF files without requiring you to install the Adobe product.
To extract the text from PDF files, simply launch the application. Then, browse the PDF files by clicking the “Add File” or “Add Folder” button. Finally, click the “Convert” button to run the text extraction process. The output or the extracted text is saved to the plain text files. Note that the text file does not preserve any formatting information of the source PDF file.
PDF2Text Pilot is designed to work with Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista
Thanks for sharing this.
Few days back i wanted to extract the text but failed. Will check this out.
This may come in handy from time to time. Before this I’m only aware of the pdf-doc converter software which usually comes with scanners, glad to know there’s an extra option for this. Thanks for sharing. ^^
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