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 Xpdf.

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  1. Provides accurate and fast text detection from any image file downloaded from your device or taken with a snapshot. It also supports textual detection of a PDF and text-based handwriting detection and text translation in 114 different languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Convert scanned text, images and scanned PDF files into editable documents with Smart OCR.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Using Free File Convert you can convert your files into different formats. Perfect conversion pdf to word with formatted rows. No registration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. UniPDF icon
     8 likes

    Standalone and easy-to-use, UniPDF performs accurate conversion from PDF files to word documents (doc/rtf), images (JPG/PNG/BMP/TIF/GIF/PCX/TGA), HTML, or plain text files (txt) in batch mode, with all document texts, layouts, images and formatting ideally preserved.

    56 UniPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. VietOCR icon
     7 likes

    A Java/.NET GUI frontend for Tesseract OCR engine. Provides optical character recognition for Vietnamese and other languages supported by Tesseract.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Text to PDF, scan QR & Barcode to PDF, excel to PDF. It’s easy to use and 100% free.

    This app is like a one-stop solution. Try it now!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  7. Text Mining Tool is a freeware program for extraction of text from files of the next types:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. PDFZilla icon
     4 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Prizmo icon
     9 likes

    Prizmo 3 is a scanning application with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in 25 languages with powerful editing capabilities, text-to-speech, iCloud support, and translation into 59 languages.

    57 Prizmo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  10. Apowersoft PDF Converter is a one-stop PDF tool, which not only contains tools to converting PDF file to other formats, but can also convert other formats to PDF, even more, it can merge PDF, split PDF, extract images, OCR, encrypt/decrypt PDF, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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