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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
About the formatting of a text file: This section of the FAQ goes into great detail about all kinds of formatting questions.
From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim
