TextFromPDF is a text extraction utility that enables for the batch processing of Adobe PDF documents.

One of a company's greatest assets is its intellectual capital. An important form of intellectual capital is the documentation created by its employees. This documentation is saved in a variety of file formats on computers throughout the enterprise.

How can a company tap into all of this intellectual capital? TextFromPDF gives a company access to the text content contained in PDF documents without requiring any Adobe product. It can automatically extract the text from thousands of Adobe PDF documents in a matter of minutes.

The extracted content is saved to text files where it can be easily searched, or archived. Developers can also import the text file contents into a variety of databases for content management purposes

Gathering the text from a PDF document without a tool such as TextFromPDF requires manual selection and copy/paste operations by a human. This is very slow, laborious, costly, and prone to error.

Here are some key features of "TEXTfromPDF":

· Command line execution.
· Batch conversion of multiple PDF documents to text file.
· Supports drag and drop of files and folders.
· Retain original layout or change to "reading order".
· Text files can be DOS/Windows, Unix, or Mac compatible
· Convert entire document or only a specific page range.
· PDFs can be on local drives or the Internet
· Works with password protected documents.
· Does not require any Adobe program.
· Maximum line length of output can be user-defined.
· Three text encodings supported: UTF-8, Latin1, and ASCII
· Supports PDF 1.5


Limitations:

· 20 day trial
· Only the first 10 pages of a document will be processed
· The text will contain watermark text at the beginning and end of the file