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. Ambar icon
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    Ambar is a smart documents archive with automated crawling, OCR, deduplication and ultra-fast full-text search. Imagine having billion of files in different formats like xls, doc, txt, pdf, ppt, etc..., in any encoding.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • VirtualBox
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
    • Ambar is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to PDF to Text.

    • Ambar is Freemium and Open SourcePDF to Text is Paid and Proprietary
  2. NewOCR.com icon
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    NewOCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) service, can analyze the text in any image file that you upload, and then convert the text from the image into text that you can easily edit on your computer..

    75 NewOCR.com alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    PDF2Word (PDF to Word) software exports the text, images and other contents from any PDF document into MS Word document format (RTF or Word), so you can edit and reuse your PDF content. PDF2Word (PDF to Word) preserves the original PDF text, layout and bitmap images in the...

    86 PDF2Word (PDF to Word) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Enables conversion between PDFs and formats like DOC, XLS, ODT, JPG, PNG, EPUB, FB2, and more with modes for both directions, batch processing, drag-and-drop, output options, formatting preservation, merging, secured file support, and an intuitive interface.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Free-OCR.com icon
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    Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this service to extract text from any image you supply.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. PDF Mage icon
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    PDF Mage lets you save the page you are currently viewing as a PDF file with a single click of a button.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Firefox
     
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    PDFMate PDF Converter is a 5-in-1 PDF program to easily convert your PDF to editable Text files, common images, EPUB Ebooks, HTML files, and even SWF files freely. It also can modify the layout and page size of PDF file.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. First PDF icon
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    This simple tool allows you to convert PDF files into: Word documents (.doc, .rtf), HTML 5, Excel, XML, Text, or JPG, Multipage TIFF, PNG.

    56 First PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. PDF to X icon
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    PDF to X is used to convert PDF documents to Word (.doc)/WordPad (.rtf) documents, HTML web pages, JPG/PNG/BMP/TIF/GIF/PCX/TGA images and plain text files in batch mode. It works without Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    A tool for converting to/from PDF files. It can convert PDF to JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, and text and back. It can also split PDF files by page.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    This program allows you to convert between PDF and other formats. PDF is free format for reading, but not for creation and exporting. So many people are looking for solution to convert their documents to PDF, or convert PDF to other formats.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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