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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

The program locks computers and then launches a ransom note in a text file, according to researchers at the Avast security software company in the Czech Republic.

From Washington Post • May 12, 2017

If you do this be sure to save the resulting file as a text file and not in the proprietary format of the word processing program!

From Email 101 by Goodwin, John