From the developer: "PDF2TXT software can extract text from pdf files, it needn't Adobe Acrobat software, it has high speed in process. You can use it to convert pdf to text! you can convert a lot of pdf files on the fly to text files once time.

"Function and face. Extract external text to txt file. Keep the text layout in pages. Support PDF1.4 protocol (supported by Acrobat5.0). Support command line, you can call it from yourself program. Needn't Adobe Acrobat software. Batch convert PDF files to text files. Support drag and drop files. Support CIDFont character set. Support PDF files which are not fully supported by Acrobat 5.0, mostly files contain errors or double-byte characters. Auto correct error text streams in PDF file."