The easiest way to convert PDF files, including the scanned ones, to text format:
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Steps: 1. Get Cisdem PDF Converter OCR for Mac
2. Add PDF files. Choose TXT as the output format
3. Click the Convert button.
To keep the layout and formatting of the original PDF, you can select Word DOCX (instead of text) as the output format.
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