PDFDataNet2Text Documentation
Want to extract text from a PDF? PDFDataNet2Text is a free PDF to text converter. See below instructions on how to use the program.
PDFDataNet2Text Instructions
Instructions on how to use the PDFDataNet2Text program for extracting text from PDF documents.
1. File Menu
- If you go to the File menu, the following dropdown options will appear:
- Open PDF
- Close PDF
- Export Text
- View Last Saved Text File (opens in your default program)
- View Last Saved Folder (opens the folder where you saved your last file – the Documents folder by default)
- Exit
2. Drag & Drop PDF
- Open the PDFDataNet2Text program.
- Drag and drag your chosen PDF file (make sure it’s a PDF that has text layers – not an image PDF).
- The PDF will then display like this with the PDF on the left pane and the extracted text on the right pane.
3. PDF Zoom
- To change the PDF zoom simply click the dropdown and select your chosen view.
4. Export Text
- At the top-right of the screen, click the Export Text button to export the extracted text.
- A dialogue window will then appear for you to select where to save the file (by default it will open the user’s Documents folder) and what to name it.
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