Date: 2006-08-31

Extracting Text The Old Way

If you’ve ever worked with PDF documents, you know that it’s simultaneously easy and difficult to extract information from PDF files. You can easily copy and paste, take snapshots and even manually retype any needed information. Yet, it becomes nearly impossible when copying from the PDF isn’t allowed or when a pasted section produces messy results.

Re-purposing the information within the PDF file will turn out to be a bigger task than you had first anticipated. This can be especially frustrating when all you need is the textual information.

Can A Text File Be The Only File Format You Need?

Sometimes extracting the text from a PDF document can be your one primary goal and one in which images, hyperlinks and layout become redundant. Fortunately, you can extract the textual information and convert to a file format ideally suited for that aim: a text file.

A t ext file is one that contains readable characters, such as letters and punctuation, and essentially uses no formatting at all. And it may be the perfect format for you if you need that textual information for specific purposes.

Although the format may seem ancient in comparison to other dynamic formats out there, a text file has many uses.

For instance, text files are used within digital databases and content management systems. As well, the format is used for encoding HTML sources for web pages and are manipulated through the use of text editors.

However, if you’re using the text to supplement your everyday work, a text file can come in handy. By converting a PDF document into a text file, you can extract text for use in word processing applications, within PowerPoint presentations, and for publishing documents.

The advantage of such a file is that its simplicity allows for a large range of programs to display the textual contents. Because a text file follows the ASCII standard, it can be easily rendered on different systems, such as Mac, MS Windows and Unix. As such, a text file is a good format for exchanging basic and essential information.

With the advanced capabilities of our conversion products, converting your PDF information directly into a text file is easy.

Converting Your PDFs to Text Files with Able2Extract

Using our Able2Extract conversion software products, you can extract the text and strip away all the logos, fonts, layouts and graphics that aren’t of any concern to you.

If you don’t need all the text within the document, our software expands your control in the conversion process. There’s no need to bother with reformatting and deleting the converted content itself afterwards. Select only the textual information you need to create a text file the way you want it. All you have to do is open, highlight and convert.

Our Convert to Text conversion command is also available in the Professional version. If you’re converting scanned documents, the OCR technology included ensures that your PDF documents are done right.

Or conversely, you can c onvert your text files into PDF files for presenting, emailing, and sharing over the internet. Using Sonic PDF Creator v.1.2 you can make your ordinary text files into dynamic PDFs by adding bookmarks, attachments and security features. Even stamp images, text and watermarks for a visually professional document.

Whatever your conversion issues are—whether simple or complex, we have the software tools that can effectively help you out.

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