A blogger need different types of softwares to create a good blog. Any word processing software (MS Word) is a must to create a blog. This software is generally installed on all computers but there is need of several other softwares to compile information. Bloggers have to extract text from PDF files when information is available in the form of a PDF document. Its a tedious job to type all the information and feed in your hard disk. The simplest way to transfer text to a word file is to copy the text from PDF files if this feature is enabled in PDF document. Even if feature is enabled, you have to do lot of work and waste your time in formating word document if you copied the text from double column PDF page. There are several free softwares available on the net to extract text from the PDF file. However, you can not extract text from all PDF files using these softwares. In many instances, text feature is disabled in the PDF files. There are other methods to extract text from text disabled PDF documents. One of the method is to scan the document using scanner with text recognition feature (OCR technology) and save it as word or PDF file. There are times when you are interested to use images imbedded in a PDF documents. To extract both text and image and keep the format intact, you will need to purchase the advance software. This can be done separately using free softwares. Images can be extracted either using graphic select tool in Adobe reader, or by using a free utility like MWSnap.

There are several free softwares available on the net to help you in converting PDF files to text files. The process is simple. You have to download and install these software and open the PDF files using these software. However, free softwares have some limitations. These software will convert the text and will not open the graphics. If you need softwares to keep the format similar to the PDF document you will need to purchase the softwares. Following softwares are available for free download.

A. Softwares to extract text from text enabled PDF files

1. A-PDF Text Extractor: This is a free utility designed to extract text from Adobe PDF files for use in other applications. The program is a standalone application. No Adobe Acrobat needed. The program is freeware, which means that you can use it either persionally or commercially for free.

To extract text from a PDF file, the PDF file must meet the following conditions:

• The file is formatted to contain text and not just images.
• The file contains no security restrictions which disable text selecting

2. Free PDF Text Reader: for easy PDF to text conversion. Fast and easy to use interface that supports opening of PDF files for saving as text files. Also supports printing of the text, copy to clipboard, page selection, and viewing of PDF info tags. No third-party software is needed. Version 1.1.41 has improved user interface.

Free PDF Text Reader for easy PDF to text conversion. Fast and easy to use interface that supports opening of PDF files for saving as text files. Also supports printing of the text, copy to clipboard, page selection, and viewing of PDF info tags. No third-party software is needed. It is free for personal use and can be downloaded clicking this link..

3. Easy PDF to Text Converter version 2.0: It can extract text from pdf files, does NOT need Adobe Acrobat software, and processes at very high speed. It can convert multiple pdf files to text files at one time.Easy PDF to Text Converter is freeware. It can be downloaded clicking this link.

B. How to extract text from text disabled PDF files?

The best way to extract text from a text disabled PDF file is to first print the PDF file as an image. Next step is to scan the printed page as an document using scanner or All-in-One printer. The details for scanning printed text to editable text are given here.

C. Extracting images from a PDF document

As discussed earlier, images from a PDF file can be extracted either by using graphic select tool of Adobe reader or by using MWSnap software. Details about the MWSnap software are provided here. This software also is a freeware.

D. Convert text, tables or images to a PDF file

There may arise a need to convert your text or tables to convert in PDF format. It can be done easily by downloading free softwares available on net. details are available here.

E. Emage editors:

Microsoft picture manager is a good program to edit your pictures.You can use free accessory "Paint" to insert text if you need to do so. There are several other image editors available free to edit your images. One such program is "Photo deluxe 2.0" that came bundled with HP Scanner software.