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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

As a text file, a book could be easily copied, indexed, searched, analyzed, and compared with other books.

From Project Gutenberg 4 July 1971 - 4 July 2011: Album by Lebert, Marie