PRACTICAL TEXT EXTRACTION ADVICE

Make more sense of your files.

Straightforward guides to extracting words from PDFs, pictures and screenshots, understanding scans and fixing awkward text formatting.

How to copy text from a PDF

Three approaches to moving a sentence, a page or a complete PDF into editable text.

Learn why some files are instantly searchable and others require optical character recognition.

What to do with strange line breaks, missing spaces, mixed columns and fragile tables.

A simple guide to recognising printed text in photos, JPGs and PNGs.