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Extract Text Guide
Create your own PDF to Text Converter to extract text from PDF and save as plain text by integrating with iLovePDF’s REST API.
Remember that in order to use our Tool Guides, you need to have previous knowledge about the basics to
processing a PDF with our REST API. We strongly recommend that you read the Processing a PDF guide
before starting this one.
Extract text only
Extract all found text in a PDF to a .txt file. -Please note that this option does not use OCR for extracting text from scanned documents.
Extract text only
Extract text and its properties from a PDF
On set the property detailed as true, you will get a CSV file to download containing the following PDF texts properties, separated by a comma: PageNo, XPos, YPos, Width, FontName, FontSize, Length, Text
Extract text and its properties from a PDF