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About PDF to TXT
Extract every text run from a PDF and save it as a plain .txt file. Loses formatting but keeps every word, which is what you want for full-text search indexing, translation, or feeding into an LLM.
Frequently asked questions
Will it work on scanned PDFs?
No, scans are images. Run them through the Image-to-Text (OCR) tool first.
Are columns preserved?
Columns are flattened to the order they appear in the PDF stream, which is usually correct but can interleave on academic papers.