Saving PDF files as text files

When saving PDF files as text files for use with text editors and word processing software, you have a choice between saving the PDF document in a Plain Text or an RTF. Select Plain Text when your only concern is getting the raw text into a more editable format. Select the RTF format whenever you want to preserve not only the document text but also as much formatting as possible. Always select the RTF file type when saving the text of PDF documents that you intend to edit with Microsoft Word.
Keep in mind that although RTF attempts to preserve much formatting from the PDF document, it is far from flawless, and in most cases you will end up having to do extensive reformatting in the resulting Word document. On those occasions, perhaps you can content yourself with the fact that you didn’t have to retype any of the text. Of course, if your PDF document is tagged, as would be the case for any PDF created using PDFMaker 6.0, all document formatting will be preserved when you import the PDF text into a word processor.