A Relaxing Way to Extract Plain Text from PDF Files on Mac

Author: Island | Publish Time: 2011-06-21 | Category: Utility

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In peoples' daily life and work, there always are some situations that we need to extract plain text from a PDF file. Actually, there are many PDF to Text converters you can find on the internet, however, most of them are just for Windows users, few can be used on Mac OS X, so, it's not easy to extract plain text from PDF files on Mac for Mac users.



Luckily, I find an efficient solution - PDF to Text converter for Mac, with which you can easily convert PDF to Text on Mac. It allows users extract text from PDF on Mac with text fonts and formatting preserved, and it also supports batch conversion, that means you can convert a batch of PDF files to text format at a time. What's more, you can use it to convert some specific PDF pages to text.



Below is the detail tutorial on how to extract plain text from PDF to Text on Mac OS X, you can follow it if you are in need to convert PDF to Text on Mac. Firstly you have to download the PDF to Text converter for Mac before converting PDF to Text and launch it by double clicking the shortcut icon.



Step 1. Import PDF files


After luanching the PDF to Text converter for Mac, you can add PDF files in two ways: a. Click the "Add PDF" button, and with the help of "Ctrl" button on the keyboard, you can import a batch of PDF files at a time; b. Use drag-and-drop function to add a batch of PDF files to the interface directly.


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Step 2. Select pdf pages and choose file location


If you want to select some specific pages from a PDF file to be converted to text format, you can click the icon in Page Range field and then enter the PDF pages number as below.


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At the bottom of the interface, you can click the "Browse" button to choose another file folder to locate the converted Text documents, or just put them in the default file folder.



Step 3. Extract text from PDF to text on Mac


Click the "Convert" button to use the PDF to Text converter to extract plain text from PDF to Text on Mac.

Seconds later, all the added PDF files will be converted to Text formats and the plain text extracted from PDF to Text is well preserved. Now you can try to use this PDF to Text converter to convert PDF to Text on Mac or extract text from PDF on your Mac.



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