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Do you have a bunch of PDFs that would be more useful as text files, or a text file that would be more useful to you as a spreadsheet?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
First, the Yale University physical chemist downloads the PDF and copies it into a separate text file.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 16, 2022
If you select “TXT” as an option, you’ll end up with a human-readable text file.
From The Verge ● Feb. 16, 2022
Alone, Manning transferred parts of the files to a small memory card and prepared an anonymous text file she wanted to accompany the information.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2017
Since this was a text file, you could have changed the "binary" to "ascii" and then eliminated the "uuencode" file.
From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation
