How to convert PDF to readable & editable Text format for E-book reader, Notepad, Wordpad.

Let’s say you own an E-book reader like an Amazon Kindle, Nook Color, Sony Reader or BeBook Neo, you probably hope to convert PDF files to TXT files that are easy to read on these small ebook readers’ screen, because many PDF files, which have large margins, multiple columns etc., are designed to be read on a large screen like a 20’’ monitor. It will be unreadable when loaded these PDF files into an e-reader with just a 6” screen. In addition, you can also edit the read-only PDF files on Notepad or Wordpad after converting PDF to TEXT format (which published as .TXT).

 

So how to convert a PDF file to TEXT format? There are two cases according to the type of the PDF file.

 

#1. If your PDF file is created from Word or other documents and has no encryption, you can use Adobe PDF reader to save the PDF files as .TXT file, just open the PDF in PDF reader, then click File and chose Save as Text.

 

But this method is inaccurate, and you need to spend a lot of time to adjust the saved Text file to make it come to itself. If you hope the output TEXT file is in Unicode, I advise you to download the Simpo PDF Converter Ultimate. This program is a decent PDF to Text (unicode) converter that can quickly transform PDF to TEXT format with high quality guaranteed, preserving the text, layout etc.

 

And it is very easy to use. You can hit the “Add PDF(s)” button to load your PDF file(s), then choose the “PDF to Text” as output format, finally click “Convert” button to start the conversion.

 

 

#2. If your PDF file are scanned or image-based, the common PDF converting programs do not support this type of PDF, you can only try this OCR software (Wondershare PDF converter pro). Wondershare advertise this OCR software on its official website that it supports accurate and fast OCR recognition and conversion, transforms image-based scanned PDF to text-based TEXT, Word, Excel, PPT, HTML and EPUB documents. You can download this program here.