Portable Document Format (PDF) is the published specification used by standards bodies around the world for more secure, reliable electronic document distribution and exchange. Adobe PDF has been adopted by enterprises, educators, and governments around the world to streamline document exchange, increase productivity, and reduce reliance on paper. Sometimes we need to extract some data from a PDF document, but some PDF reader without such functions. How should we do? A powerful and handy PDF data extractor will help us a lot. Here is a popular and excellent PDF data extractor I will show you. That is PDF Plain Text Extractor which was published by Retsina Software Solutions. Following is the detailed introduction of it. Now let us go and see how excellent it is!

PDF Plain Text Extractor is a powerful and easy to use PDF data extractor. PDF Plain Text Extractor can extract plain text from PDF files without the need for any additional software (not even Acrobat Reader) installed on our computer. PDF Plain Text Extractor analyzes the PDF file and extract plain text from it while attempting to preserve much of the original layout. There are no options to customize the output formatting, and large images (in the PDF file) will cause large gaps in the text documents, making them difficult to read. PDF Plain Text Extractor integrates into the Explorer right click menu, and allows for single file or batch processing.

Here are some key functions and advantages of PDF Plain Text Extractor, including:

1. PDF Plain Text Extractor is an application that helps us extract plain text from PDF files without any PDF SDK or other third party lib help. We do not need any products from Adobe (neither Adobe Acrobat Reader nor Adobe Acrobat) installed on our computer. PDF Plain Text Extractor focus on text extraction from PDF file.

2. PDF Plain Text Extractor analyzes the raw PDF file directly and extracts plain text from it. The layout of the document is reserved. Performance and precision are our goal. PDF Plain Text Extractor supports PDF specification 1.x.

3. A handy graphic user interface also provided. The trial version of PDF Plain Text Extractor can only process the first 5 pages of PDF document, no file size limitation and 15 days free trial. PDF Plain Text Extractor supports Chinese/Korean/Japanese/All European languages well.

4. PDF Plain Text Extractor supports PDF specification 1.x. Compare to Ver3.0, P2T Ver4.0 supports Unicode and muliti-bytes languages, It can process PDF file in English, Simple Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese and European languages. PDF Plain Text Extractor is the most favorite PDF to Text converter, more than 173,000 users from all over the world have downloaded it.

5. Additional functions of PDF Plain Text Extractor include: Support LZW encoded PDF documents. We can drag and drop PDF document to finish conversion. We can convert the whole folder in batch. We can convert PDF files from different location of our hard drives at one time. We can save our converting PDF file list for future use. We can output page ranges of the document. We can set the page break string to separate pages. We can set output page number with page break string. We can browse the PDF file information(Title/Author/Create date...) through graphic user interface and more.

In addition, PDF Plain Text Extractor provides a free trial for us but only can be free used 30 days and some functions of it are disabled. It is standalone software and does not need any extra software and hardware requirement. PDF Plain Text Extractor does not contain any adware or spyware. It works with Win98/ME/2000/XP and its current version is 4.0 Build 4463. The price of the registration version is only $59.00 and we can get update and upgrade free. With all these features, simple interface, excellent usability, low cost and free trial period - why are you still reading? Download the free trial now and experience how powerful and effective it is at once! If you feel this utility is helpful indeed, introduce it to your friends please!

PDF Plain Text Extractor(P2T) can extract plain text from PDF files withoput the need for any additional software (not even Acrobat Reader) installed on your computer. P2T analyzes the pdf file and extract plain text from it while attempting to preserve much of the original layout. There are no options to customize the output formatting, and large images (in the PDF file) will cause large gaps in the text documents, making them difficult to read. The program integrates into the Explorer right click menu, and allows for single file or batch processing.

PDF Plain Text Extractor Features:
1. The layout of pdf document is reserved.
2. Don't need any third party products(such as Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Acrobat reader)
3. Support LZW encoded pdf documents.
4. Supports English, French, German, Italian and other languages.
5. You can Drag&Drop pdf document to finish conversion.
6. Can convert the whole folder( recursive or not)
7. Can convert pdf files from different location of your hard drives at one time.
8. Can save your converting pdf file list for future use.
9. Can output page ranges of the document.
10. Can set the page break string to separate pages.
11. Can set output page number with page break string.
12. Can browse the pdf file's information(Title/Auther/Create date...) through graphic user interface.
13. Have the option to output pdf file's information to the output text file.
14. Can set the output folder for individual pdf file or all the pdf files in the converting list.
15. Support Unicode, muliti-bytes languages.
16. Support Type0, Type1, Type3, TrueType, CIDFont fonts.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $59.95, you can free download and get a free trial.