# TextfromPDF Reviews **Vendor:** Textfrompdf **Category:** [Document Creation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/document-creation) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 26 ## About TextfromPDF TEXTfromPDF is a text extraction tool for WinXP/2000 that automates the conversion of Adobe PDF documents to text files. The PDFs may be on local drives, network drives, or on the Internet. ## TextfromPDF Reviews ### 1. A great tool to quickly grasp text from a pdf **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akshata K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2024 **What do you like best about TextfromPDF?** It is quite efficient in extracting text from the document, little to no errors present **What do you dislike about TextfromPDF?** The formatting can get jumbled up at times, and punctuation can get distorted **What problems is TextfromPDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Certain pdfs usually don't allow you to edit them, hence Textfrompdf allows to extract text from the pdf and use it ### 2. Easiest tool for extracting text from PDF **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aayush S. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2023 **What do you like best about TextfromPDF?** It is very easy to use and saves your time while doing office work. The drag and drop feature, text and color cloning are some of its best features which the competitors lack. It's availability online is also of great advantage. You don't need to install any software on your device. **What do you dislike about TextfromPDF?** Sometimes it gives wrong data and gets confused while reading the pdf files. The formatting of text gets very clumsy after conversion which. Sometimes the paragraphs too are not properly aligned. **What problems is TextfromPDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me in extracting text from any pdf files which is beneficial for me while doing office related work. If I want to copy something from one pdf file and paste it somewhere else then this tool comes like a life saver to me. ### 3. I am satisfied with the service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Somnath D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2023 **What do you like best about TextfromPDF?** This helps me a lot while reviewing the details submitted by our customers who share PDFs with us with all their information. Sometimes, it does not allow us to copy text from the PDFs, but TextfromPDF helps me immensely in this situation. It saves a lot of time and effort to achieve my targets in a shorter period. **What do you dislike about TextfromPDF?** Sometimes it does not recognize the details correctly and provides wrong information, creating confusion while handling the details in real time. This needs to be resolved. **What problems is TextfromPDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** It saves me a lot of time as earlier, it was tough to copy the details from the PDFs, which was a big issue. It used to take a lot of time earlier, but now I can quickly solve this issue using TextfromPDF however it still needs some improvement as sometimes it does not scans the details inside the PDF properly which causes a lot of issues. ### 4. Very easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2023 **What do you like best about TextfromPDF?** It is really one of the best software to save your time in converting text from pdf. Very easy to use, I would highly recommend everyone to use this and save your time. **What do you dislike about TextfromPDF?** There is nothing to dislike about this as earlier I was using this like every day now I didn't have a work like this so nowadays I am not using it. **What problems is TextfromPDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is saving my time and energy. I mean it is really difficult to covert text from pdf manually but this software is really solving our problem. ### 5. Best tool for TextfromPDF **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madhu B. | Technology Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2022 **What do you like best about TextfromPDF?** I have gone to many of the tools for converting text from pdf but this TextfromPDF is very simple to use with lot of features like cloning of fonts, existing colours. **What do you dislike about TextfromPDF?** Nothing much dislike from TextfromPDF but operating multiple files from TextfromPDF tool is bit freeze but apart from that everything is good. **Recommendations to others considering TextfromPDF:** TextfromPDF tool is better tool for extracting text from any type of pdf file with 100% efficiency **What problems is TextfromPDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Copying text from pdf by manual is very difficult but by using this TextfromPDF tool is very much easier with 100% efficiency ### 6. Great, useful program. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francesca C. | Marketing Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2021 **What do you like best about TextfromPDF?** Very very useful. This is a great tool for when I need to grab text - something that happens a lot when dealing with older, outdated PDFs. This has saved me so many times from having to recreate an entire document. **What do you dislike about TextfromPDF?** Nothing it is a very good program. We like it a lot **Recommendations to others considering TextfromPDF:** Adobe Acrobat now also has a similar software, so I use that as I'm on a Mac and can't use TexttoPDF anymore. **What problems is TextfromPDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** None ### 7. Fastest Text to Pdf software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vaibhav P. | Freelance Projects, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about TextfromPDF?** If you have a document in PDF format and need to extract the text from it, then this is the tool for you. Just drag your PDF file onto the application window. **What do you dislike about TextfromPDF?** The user interface of the website is poor. They do not have any online application, and downloading the application on PC keeps many users away from trying this tool. **What problems is TextfromPDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us convert all of our pdf files into text format. We need to make some changes to the pdf files, and converting them into a text file is the best way. ### 8. TextFromPDF review by Lokesh **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lokesh Kumar G. | Sales Execuive, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2021 ### 9. Best tool to convert PDF to Text **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjay K. | Head of content, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2021 **What do you like best about TextfromPDF?** Text from PDF helps to convert the pdf to Text with high accuracy and fewer error rates, the good part is that the console version of the application is available along with the windows application. **What do you dislike about TextfromPDF?** You won't able to replicate diagrams and graphs from the pdf as it is, TexttoPDF doesn't have the capability to do the same, also the website is a bit confusing and the online demo on the website never works on chrome. Also the purchasing option on the website not directed to the exact page. The app won't run without restarting the system. Would recommend a more fix and adaptable UI. **Recommendations to others considering TextfromPDF:** It's a good application for a small-scale pdf to text conversion, if you are looking for more accurate conversion textfrom PDF has some limitations as it doesn't support graphics to replica. **What problems is TextfromPDF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Converting Lecture notes into the Text format, and making brief notes. Collaboration in different college projects. Converting PDF to text format. ### 10. TextfromPDF review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vivek Kumar M. | internal auditor, Hospital & Health Care, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2021 ## TextfromPDF Discussions - [What is TextfromPDF used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-textfrompdf-used-for) - [How to use textfrompdf](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-to-use-textfrompdf) - 1 upvote - [View TextfromPDF pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/textfrompdf/reviews/textfrompdf-review-4808218?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-25+08%3A07%3A04+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=3cfe2eb0-d042-461a-a8b7-def51c9437cf&secure%5Btoken%5D=71cf57ec3494ee99b48aae21abf3b4706524f752e0b82c5ace1d36b68de393a8&format=llm_user) ## TextfromPDF Features **Design** - Graphics - Templates - Themes **Collaboration** - Multi-User Collaboration - Real-Time Communication **File Types** - Export - Import - Web Publishing **Edit & Revise** - Revision History - Suggestion Mode - Document Editor **Integrate & Embed** - Calendar - Website - Applications **Operating System** - PC Operating System - Mac Operating System - Linux Operating System **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization - AI Text-to-Image - AI Text-to-Speech - AI Image-to-Text **Agentic AI - Document Creation** - Proactive Assistance ## Top TextfromPDF Alternatives - [Zoom Workplace](https://www.g2.com/products/zoom-workplace/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (53,432 reviews) - [Google Workspace](https://www.g2.com/products/google-workspace/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (45,521 reviews) - [ClickUp](https://www.g2.com/products/clickup/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (11,955 reviews)