PDF to Text

PDF to Text is an application with a title that perfectly describes its functionality - it allows you to convert PDF files to plain text documents. The tool can be handled by both first-time and advanced users.
The interface of the program is based on a standard window in which you can import PDF documents by using the file browser only, since the "drag and drop" method is not supported. Batch processing is not possible.
So, you can check out the source path of the PDF file, as well as specify the output destination and filename, in order to proceed with the task.
Furthermore, you ca enable PDF to Text to open the text file after exporting, set the page range, as well as select the layout conversion mode (flowing, physical, raw order) and encoding method (ANSI, Unicode, UTF-8).
On top of that, you can set a document open password, as well as enable PDF to Text to generate HTML metadata, insert page breaks and to extract images (to the JPG extension).
The PDF processing tool takes up a moderate-to-high amount of system resources, has a good response time, quickly finishes a task and didn't freeze, crash or pop up errors during our tests. The quality of the images and text layout is preserved at a good level. Unfortunately, the fact that batch processing is not supported is a major downside. Plus, there is no help file available and you cannot preview PDF documents. We recommend PDF to Text with some reservations.