TEXTfromPDF

TextFromPDF is a text extraction utility that enables for the batch processing of Adobe PDF documents.
One of a companys 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":
ï¿­ Command line execution.
ï¿­ Batch conversion of multiple PDF documents to text file.
ï¿­ Supports drag and drop of files and folders.
ï¿­ Retain original layout or change to "reading order".
ï¿­ Text files can be DOS/Windows, Unix, or Mac compatible
ï¿­ Convert entire document or only a specific page range.
ï¿­ PDFs can be on local drives or the Internet
ï¿­ Works with password protected documents.
ï¿­ Does not require any Adobe program.
ï¿­ Maximum line length of output can be user-defined.
ï¿­ Three text encodings supported: UTF-8, Latin1, and ASCII
ï¿­ Supports PDF 1.5
Limitations:
ï¿­ 20 day trial
ï¿­ Only the first 10 pages of a document will be processed
ï¿­ The text will contain watermark text at the beginning and end of the file