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On this page you can find the most frequently asked questions regarding
PDF-to-Text product. If your question is not answered here, please contact
us via Feedback Form or contact us at
Does PDF-to-Text require Adobe Acrobat?
No, PDF-to-Text converter does not require Adobe Acrobat.
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Does PDF-to-Text support batch conversion?
Yes, there is console version of the program p2tagent.exe in the installation
directory. It supports command line arguments and can be called from any script.
Please refer to 'Command line' article of the product documentation for the
further information.
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Why some parts of PDF document are replaced by
strange characters in plain text output?
Sometimes when fonts are embedded or subset within a PDF, the original font
information is lost and the text is corrupted. Although PDF Acrobat or Reader
will still display correctly, the correct text information is not available.
In these cases PDF-to-Text failed to extract the correct text from your file.
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Can PDF-to-Text extract text from scanned PDF
documents?
No, PDF-to-Text converter will only be able to extract text if it is available as text
within the PDF document. It will not perform optical character recognition
(OCR) procedure on scanned PDF document. However, if you use the free Paper
Capture plug-in from Adobe.com to perform OCR on your PDF document, you can
then use PDF-to-Text to convert the document it creates into plain text.
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Why some symbols are replaced by asterisks (*) in demo version of PDF-to-Text
Demo version of PDF-to-Text replaces random characters in the destination document
with asterisks (*). This limitation will not appear in full (paid) version of the converter.
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How to uninstall PDF-to-Text converter?
If you need to remove PDF-to-Text product from your
computer, you can use "Add or Remove Programs" option in the
Windows Control Panel. If this option is not available for some reason,
you can call uninstall procedure running the following command line
from the installation folder:
UNWISE.EXE pdf2txt.log
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