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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
Zoom and Google include tools that use A.I. to automatically transcribe speech from a meeting into a text file, as long as the meeting is recorded with everyone’s permission.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
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 “JSON,” you’ll get a text file that’s formatted like Javascript, making it easier to feed it into computer programs.
From The Verge ● Feb. 16, 2022
Each format that a reader understands has one or more converter programs that run on your PC, and turn the plain text file into that format.
From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim
