Convert PDF to text using free PDF2Text Pilot

PDF to text conversion with free PDF2Text Pilot

PDF2Text Pilot is an open-source software that converts PDF documents into text files.

To convert PDF to text file, do the following:

Add the PDF document (1).
Click the Convert button (2).

PDF2Text Pilot program window

Click the Settings button if you want set a text document settings. You can tick the "Get Author" , "Get Subject" , "Get Title" or "Get Keywords" options. The text files will have the same settings with the PDF file.

Batch converting is available. PDF2Text Pilot allows you to extract texts from a batch of PDF files to:
- a corresponding number of files;
- a single file. Tick the "All to one" option just before the "Convert..." button.

Also you can convert PDF to text file using the command line.

PDF library

The PDF2Text Pilot program extracts texts from PDF documents using the PDF Creator Pilot library. More about PDF Creator Pilot...

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PDF2Text Pilot is licensed as BSD Open-Sourse software. More...

Download PDF2Text Pilot 2.0 (2.7M) - Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista

If you have any question or problems, feel free to contact us using the online form. You may attach files that were not converted or not converted properly.
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Open-source

PDF2Text Pilot 2.0 is an open source product that uses commercial the PDF library component. So, the program code, excepting code of the PDF Creator Pilot library, is available for free.

Download PDF2Text Pilot source code (2.0M)

Version history

April 17 2009 :: Version 2.0
+Command line
+Ability to input a password in files protected by password PDF
*Converting occurs a separate thread

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Full list of converters:

Program	Converts:	Price
Document2PDF Pilot	txt, rtf, html, htm, shtml, chm, doc, mcw, xls, xlw, wri, wps, wpt to PDF	49.95
CHM2PDF Pilot	chm to PDF	29.95
HTML2PDF Pilot	html to PDF	29.95
Image2PDF Pilot	tiff, jpg, png, emf to PDF	39.00
TIFF2PDF Pilot	tiff to PDF	29.95
Bmp2PDF Pilot	bmp to PDF	29.95
PDF2Text Pilot	PDF to text files	free

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