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<title><![CDATA[By: Ronn Blankenship]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zilla-pdf-to-txt-converter/#comment-109110</link>
<description><![CDATA[I decided to grab it at the last minute, and it converted the first .pdf document I could find (a 62K .pdf of the bill that required all of us in the US to buy new TV equipment by last June :() in seconds and afaict from a quick scan, accurately wrt content and line/paragraph separation.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:13:03 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Cad Delworth CEng MBCS CITP]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zilla-pdf-to-txt-converter/#comment-109109</link>
<description><![CDATA[@#10, #13: Adobe Reader V9.3 certainly DOES save a 'text-based' PDF as text … but the result is not very pretty.  The 'Some PDF' converter mentioned previously saves the text in a much more readable way, AND allows you to select the pages you want to convert (unlike Adobe Reader, which forces you to convert the entire PDF).

In fairness, today's GOTD also allows you to choose the start and end page of the original PDF document, but it seems from the other comments that results (and even installation) can vary depending on your PC and the kinds of PDFs you want to convert.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:19:07 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Toris]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zilla-pdf-to-txt-converter/#comment-109108</link>
<description><![CDATA[@ # 17
To convert scanned image, you need ocr software. 
Your pdf has no text, its an image, ocr will scan and "guess" at letters to create text.
There is a free one (called, I think FreeOcr) but I don't have links handy.I do not know how good it is, as I didn't use it, I have a promo from Abbyy:)]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:30:19 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: lostinlodos]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zilla-pdf-to-txt-converter/#comment-109107</link>
<description><![CDATA[Not a true OCR program. Your PDF file MUST be in plain text to begin with. That means if the source was a JPEG, SWF, PNG, or any other non-text file, you will get blank pages. 

Crashes on PDF/A and PDF/H files, even in plain text source.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:33:19 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Joe T.]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zilla-pdf-to-txt-converter/#comment-109106</link>
<description><![CDATA[Take this comparison for what it's worth, because I only ran one document into PDFZilla, not today's Zilla PDF to TXT Converter.  

Source: a Teach12 document portion, scanned into PDF, then OCR'd using Adobe Acrobat Standard 8.1, at best quality.  (Why did I want text?  For PDA reading--my very old PDA doesn't do PDFs well, and I was too low on space to use a Word conversion [Docs2Go].) 

Comparison was
1) screen-scrape the PDF, paste into Word 2007, Save as .txt, as others have mentioned as an alternative. 
 vs.
2) PDFZilla, output to text.

Results: I'll stick with #1, copy-paste into Word, because PDFZilla was trying to be too intelligent in line-spacing an outline, and failed.  See the samples for yourself.

1) Sample captured by screen scrape, then Word to text.  More faithful to the original outline, though only single line spacing:

"A. Economists take tradebffs seriously. Most people feel that if
something is a good idea overall, admitting any downside is
strategically bad.
1. If you confess that there are tradeoffs, perhaps your
argument will appear weaker.
2. But what may be good strategy in an argument is bad
strategy for a serious analyst, who needs to admit and
consider all the consequences, good and bad.
B. Economists believe in "statistical people," not real people.
1. Anecdotes tell us about one person or situation, but even
when they are completely accurate, they can't reveal
whether that particular example is typical or a rare
exception.
2. Economics requires that decisions about social policy
need to be made on the basis of overall judgements about
effects across society, not individual cases.
C. Selfishness can be an effective principle of social
organization.
1. It may seem implausible that good can ever come of
selfishness. But one of the fundamental insights of
economics, dating back to Adam Smith in 1776 and even ._
earlier, is that people often engage in productive economic
behavior (working, saving, comparison shopping,
providing high quality goods) out of selfish motives.
2. An "invisible hand" can lead selfishness to be socially
productive."

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Sample #2, PDFZilla to TXT:

"A. Economists take tradebffs seriously. Most people feel that if something is a good idea overall, admitting any downside is strategically bad. 1. 2.
If you confess that there are tradeoffs, perhaps your argument will appear weaker. But what may be good strategy in an argument is bad strategy for a serious analyst, who needs to admit and consider all the consequences, good and bad.

B.

Economists believe in "statistical people," not real people. 1. Anecdotes tell us about one person or situation, but even when they are completely accurate, they can't reveal whether that particular example is typical or a rare exception. 2. Economics requires that decisions about social policy need to be made on the basis of overall judgements about effects across society, not individual cases. Selfishness can be an effective principle of social organization. 1. It may seem implausible that good can ever come of selfishness. But one of the fundamental insights of economics, dating back to Adam Smith in 1776 and even ._ earlier, is that people often engage in productive economic behavior (working, saving, comparison shopping, providing high quality goods) out of selfish motives. 2. An "invisible hand" can lead selfishness to be socially productive.

C."]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:32:03 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe T.]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Rev Paul]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zilla-pdf-to-txt-converter/#comment-109105</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hi,

I was installing this on Windows 7 and it doesn't work. Entering the registration key says that it registers at but upon reopening, it asks for the registration again.

It also tried to install itself in C:\, so it felt like the installer wasn't used to Windows 7.  

Rev Paul]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:26:22 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: JohnnieWalker]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zilla-pdf-to-txt-converter/#comment-109104</link>
<description><![CDATA[I prefer freebies like "Some PDF to Word Converter" or "Free PDF to Word Doc Converter" (beware, the free version asks you a math question each time you convert a file). Both of these allow you convert a PDF and capture both the graphics and the <b>formatted</b> text. And they do a relatively decent job of maintaining embedded font types/sizes/weights, etc. They also allow for some rudimentary control of carriage returns, kerning, page selection, etc. And once your file is converted to Word you can do a "save to text" from there, if you need.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:15:59 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: YiKeDaCaoMei]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zilla-pdf-to-txt-converter/#comment-109103</link>
<description><![CDATA[This software is mainly for batch conversion I think...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:27:09 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: mond]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zilla-pdf-to-txt-converter/#comment-109102</link>
<description><![CDATA[#16, i can't believe that you don't know those shortcuts. I like your reviews but have shocked after reading your message. i hope you're just kidding.

i've tried today's program and it's working no problem on Vista 64. But i've uninstalled as i find it less useful.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:22:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Richard]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zilla-pdf-to-txt-converter/#comment-109101</link>
<description><![CDATA[For those who want a whole suite of PDF conversion tools, for FREE, go to 

<a href="http://www.somepdf.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.somepdf.com/</a>

They have PDF-to-
* Text
* HTML
* Word
* Image (extraction)]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:47:10 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard]]></dc:creator>
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