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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 note can be as simple as an email to the company’s executives or a text file left unencrypted on one of the servers.
From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2021
One way to deal with this is to call up the simple mail program, which will not produce any weird characters when you upload a text file into a message.
From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation
