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Convert PDF to Text

This extracts the words and discards the layout. It is what you want when the text itself is the point, for indexing, searching or feeding another system, rather than reproducing the document's appearance.

How to Convert PDF to Text

  1. Upload the PDF.
  2. Choose plain text or RTF.
  3. Download the extracted text.

When you would use this

  • Feeding document text into a search index or DMS.
  • Getting a quotable transcript out of a report.
  • Preparing content for translation.

Questions

Why is the output empty?

The PDF is a scan with no text layer. Run OCR PDF first.

What is the difference between TXT and RTF?

TXT is words only. RTF keeps basic formatting such as bold and italics.

Will the layout be preserved?

No. Columns and tables are flattened into running text. Use PDF to Word if layout matters.

Need this at scale?

These tools handle one document at a time. When the job is thousands of files, Greenbooks handles document digitization as a managed service, including bulk scanning, OCR and metadata capture, with the output loaded into DocuVenta DMS. Talk to us about volume work.

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