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PDF2Text Pilot

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PDF2Text Pilot text extractor provides you with a very fast method of extracting text from PDF documents. Just select PDF files, click Convert, and you will get text files containing the resulting texts from the PDF extraction.

File-/Folder-selection for extracting text from pdf

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Windows  msi-file with 2.0 MB for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
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  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Convert PDF to Text

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  • pdf-conversion
  • command-line-start
  • pdf-to-txt-command-line

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PDF2Text Pilot information

  • Developed by

    US flagTwo Pilots
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.3
  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about PDF2Text Pilot, and it has gotten 6 likes

PDF2Text Pilot was added to AlternativeTo by em4020 on Aug 7, 2012 and this page was last updated Nov 18, 2020.

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Top Positive Comment
em4020
Aug 7, 2012
0

PDF2Text Pilot is the only free command-line-PDF-tool I know, able to convert PDF-files to text-files using the command line following the instruction http://www.colorpilot.com/pdf2text-command-line3.html .

This instruction you can also find in the Windows GUI of PDF2Text Pilot: Help - Contents - Using Command Line. All other PDF-to-txt tools I have found, are not free.

It was not easy to find the correct instruction, how to use the command-line-syntax, but with a syntax following this instruction the conversion of pdf-files to txt-files works fantastically.

Top Negative Comment
maclak
Sep 8, 2018
1

Do not work on basic PDF files, output two blank lines without any warning or error. Tested on a dozen PDF generated from an official website (i.e. they are automatically created from database content): none can be converted successfully, despite the text can be selected within Acrobat Reader without any problem.

ulvis
Dec 7, 2012
-1

Is this realy open source ???

What is PDF2Text Pilot?

PDF2Text Pilot text extractor provides you with a very fast method of extracting text from PDF documents. Just select PDF files, click Convert, and you will get text files containing the resulting texts from the PDF extraction. You also can convert PDF to text file using the command line: http://www.colorpilot.com/pdf2text-command-line3.html . This instruction you can also find in the Windows GUI of PDF2Text Pilot: Help -> Contents -> Using Command Line.