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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

This iteration of Bitsy then displayed the game on his personal website, so that while Le Doux was writing the text file on his phone, he could playtest the game seamlessly in real time.

From The Verge • Mar. 7, 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

The following information is also given in the text file about_the_music in the “Music” directory.

From The Beggar's Opera to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song by Fraser, Claud Lovat