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More sensible alternatives - Version: 3.2, 12/4/2007 05:23PM PST
maurer
We bought this a few years ago but never use it. PDF2RTFService does the same thing for free and FileJuicer, for half the price, extracts graphics as well as text.
Useless crapware, use Adobe Reader for accurate conversion - Version: 3.1, 4/5/2006 09:17AM PST
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Xeater
TextLightning works...sometimes. If you've got a PDF with simple formatting TextLightning will churn out a respectable rtf file. Feed TextLightning a slightly complex PDF file, and you get a useless rtf document filled with word fragments and line breaks every few words. But it still beats manually copying and pasting text from PDF files, right?
Oh, but imagine my surprise when I downloaded the latest version of Adobe Reader (v7.0.7), opened a complex PDF document on which TextLightning had choked, and saw a curious item in the File menu: "Save As Text..." In a few minutes I'd converted all of my most complex PDF files to txt files, and the results were PERFECT!
Adobe Reader does this for FREE, and it does it well.
Oh, but imagine my surprise when I downloaded the latest version of Adobe Reader (v7.0.7), opened a complex PDF document on which TextLightning had choked, and saw a curious item in the File menu: "Save As Text..." In a few minutes I'd converted all of my most complex PDF files to txt files, and the results were PERFECT!
Adobe Reader does this for FREE, and it does it well.
Whine - Version: 3.0, 3/8/2004 03:48PM PST
sherman1
Grow up, TheRealTerry. The demo didn't "screw up" anything, your original PDF is still intact. It gave you a perfectly reasonable demo of what the app can do. I used the demo to run several PDF documents, large and small, with and without complicated formatting. It clearly works like a charm, and I'll be sending in my money.
