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Converting PDF to Plain Text (TXT)
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.)
- Ghostscript on Win & Linux [2]
- Convert pdf to Text - Convert pdf to txt - Convert online pdf to Text (Chinese text becomes garbled, 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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