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Converting PDF to Plain Text (TXT)

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utility: pdftotext on Win , macOS ^[1] & Linux (pdftotext - Wikipedia | Wikipedia) [Last visited: 2023-06-02]
- Usage: pdftotext [options] [PDF-file [text-file]]
- Note: Install pdftotext on windows

PDF Text Extraction In Your Browser - PDFTextOnline online service for extracting text from PDF files. (File size cannot exceed 10M) (Chinese test successful, test date: 2008-12-07.)

Zamzar - Free online file conversion online service: PDF to TXT conversion (Chinese text becomes garbled, test date: 2008-12-07.)

PDF to Text - Free Online OCR Conversion Tool Free version limitations: one file conversion per hour, file size is also limited [Last visited: 2022-10-07]

py-pdf/pdfly: CLI tool to extract (meta)data from PDF and manipulate PDF files "A CLI application that uses pypdf to interact with PDFs."
- Usage: pdfly extract-text PDF-file > text-file
- Requirement: Python

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 * {{Gd}} utility: [https://www.xpdfreader.com/pdftotext-man.html pdftotext] on {{Win}}, {{Mac}}<ref>[https://brewinstall.org/install-pdftotext-mac-osx/ Install pdftotext on Mac OSX - Brew Cask | BrewInstall]</ref> & {{Linux}} ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftotext pdftotext - Wikipedia | Wikipedia]) {{access | date=2023-06-02}}
 ** Usage: {{kbd | key=<nowiki>pdftotext [options] [PDF-file [text-file]]</nowiki>}}
+** Note: [[Install pdftotext on windows]]
 * {{Gd}} [http://pdftextonline.com/ PDF Text Extraction In Your Browser - PDFTextOnline] online service for extracting text from PDF files. (File size cannot exceed 10M) ([http://www.box.net/shared/pyve05ss4c Chinese test successful], test date: 2008-12-07.)