TEXTfromPDF

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