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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
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
Alone, Manning transferred parts of the files to a small memory card and prepared an anonymous text file she wanted to accompany the information.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2017
If you do this be sure to save the resulting file as a text file and not in the proprietary format of the word processing program!
From Email 101 by Goodwin, John
