PDF to Text Alternatives

PDF to Text is described as 'Is used to quickly convert PDF documents to plain text files in batch mode. It works without Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader, and has Command Line Interface (CLI), fast and accurate conversion ability, friendly GUI, small size' and is an app. There are more than 50 alternatives to PDF to Text for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Mac, iPhone and Linux apps. The best PDF to Text alternative is ABBYY FineReader PDF. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Online Convert or CopyFish. Other great apps like PDF to Text are Tabula, FreeOCR, (a9t9) Free OCR Software and Online2PDF.com.

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  1. ABBYY FineReader PDF icon

    ABBYY FineReader PDF

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    Optical recognition software boasting unmatched text accuracy converts scanned documents to editable Word, Excel, or searchable PDFs while preserving layout. Supports 190 languages, simplifies processes with automated tasks, and includes PDF editing tools.

    88 ABBYY FineReader PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is the most popular Windows, Mac, iPhone & iPad alternative to PDF to Text.

    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is the most popular commercial alternative to PDF to Text.

    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is Paid and ProprietaryPDF to Text is also Paid and Proprietary
    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is LightweightPDF to Text is not according to our users
  2. Online Convert icon

    Online Convert

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    Convert files like images, videos, documents, audio and more to other formats with this free and fast online converter.

    172 Online Convert alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Google Chrome
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    • Online Convert is the most popular Web-based, Android & Android Tablet alternative to PDF to Text.

    • Online Convert is the most popular free alternative to PDF to Text.

    • Online Convert is Freemium and ProprietaryPDF to Text is Paid and Proprietary
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    CopyFish

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    Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.

    84 CopyFish alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
    Copy text from images, PDF and Youtube videos
     

    • CopyFish is the most popular Linux alternative to PDF to Text.

    • CopyFish is the most popular Open Source alternative to PDF to Text.

    • CopyFish is Free and Open SourcePDF to Text is Paid and Proprietary
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    PDFZilla

    PDFZilla is a desktop software designed to convert PDF files into various formats. These formats include editable MS Word Documents, Rich Text Documents, Plain Text Files, Images, HTML Files, and Shockwave Flash SWF Files.

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    Tabula

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    Tabula is a tool for liberating data tables locked inside PDF files. Extract tables from PDFs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Home screen. Import PDF documents, or view previously imported PDF documents.
     
  7. FreeOCR icon

    FreeOCR

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    FreeOCR is a scan & OCR program including the Tesseract free ocr engine, also known as a Tesseract GUI. It includes a Windows installer, and it is very simple to use.

    87 FreeOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Online2PDF.com icon

    Online2PDF.com

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    Online PDF Converter - Create, edit and merge PDF - Unlock PDF and remove protection - Free - Convert your files to PDF or use one of many other useful PDF tools - fast and easily. You can edit and rotate PDF pages individually or as a whole.

    160 Online2PDF.com alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Main
     
  11. Xpdf icon

    Xpdf

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    Xpdf is a free PDF viewer and toolkit, including a text extractor, image converter, HTML converter, and more. Most of the tools are available as open source.

    62 Xpdf alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Online OCR icon

    Online OCR

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    Free Online OCR is a software that allows you to convert scanned PDF and images into editable Word, Text, Excel output formats.

    86 Online OCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  13. PDF Conversa icon

    PDF Conversa

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    Converts PDF files to Word (DOC, RTF) and Word (DOC, DOCX) to PDF, preserving graphics, tables, fonts, and layout, supporting password protection, font embedding, image compression, and batch conversion for fast, accurate, professional documents.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. OwlOCR icon

    OwlOCR

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    OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.

    103 OwlOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    CometDocs

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    Free online conversion service. Possible to determine unknown file format too.

    Thats a pretty catchy selling point in itself—you can convert PDFs to Excel files, huge TIFF images to PDF, icon files into images, and the site even does a little OCR work on certain image-to-text co.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
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