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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

Assuming that it's a plain text file, we next run gutcheck and a quick spellcheck on the file.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim