Rating: 4
Version tested: 1.1.42
Text Mining Tool is a free program that can extract text from PDF, DOC, RTF, CHM and HTML files without needing to have any other installed programs that open these files such as MS Word or a PDF reader.
If you ever need to extract text out of any of the above mentioned file formats you can use Text Mining Tool to do so quickly and easily. All you have to do is load the source file and it will extract the text and display it for you, afterwhich you can either save the text file or copy it into the clipboard.
Of course, you can always use a free program such as OpenOffice to open and edit a number of these formats, and many PDF readers allow you to select text from the PDF file and copy it into the clipboard. However, if you don’t want to install any programs or have to open these programs and then manually go through the process of grabbing the text, Text Mining Tool can do it all for you in a single click.
The only issue I have encountered with this program is that when I tried to extract text from a .CHM file it did not work, and I got an error message instead. I am assuming that this error will be fixed in future versions of this program. Here are some other notes:
- Hotkeys: all functions can be performed using hotkeys (open/save/copy to clipboard).
- Portable: no install necessary, simply extract and run.
- CLI tool: entitled minetext is included for use from the command line interface.
Text Mining Toolis a nice, simple tool that supports a good range of file types and is 100% free. If you need to extract text from files you will really appreciate this one.
Compatibility: WinAll. Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
Go to the program page to get the latest version (approx 8 megs).
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Where is a link to download page? I can’t find this on the usual freeware sites (Snapfiles, Betanews, Download, etc.)
Never mind. If you want to download this search page for “Go to the program page”. (I always forget this!!!) It is kinda hard to see. Regardless, I love this site. Jespard
It’s great that it has a CLI tool. It is one thing that truly makes it more useful.
I would like to add my results of usage as review.
Pros:
- works very well as pdf2text, doc2text utilities
- gets text from RTF, CHM, HTML files
- special console utilitiy included for use from the command line interface
- no installation is needed, just extract the tool and use it
- hotkeys are really comfortable
- 100% free
Cons:
- text got from HTML files is a bit unformatted (though JavaScript is bitten from it)
- .NET Framework 2.0 is required
Console utility minetext.exe really impresses! It performs many convertions from PDF to text with one click (or key press
).
I just can’t convert a pdf into text. It tells me it doesn’t find the file. I’ve already checked the pdf file exists. Some ideas? Here is my command line : E:\ltsaua0\Archivage\minetext\minetext.exe “E:\ltsaua0\Archivage\1.pdf” “E:\ltsaua0\Archivage\mine.txt”
Thanks
Downloaded the program twice, but runtime error when click on the exe, doesnt initialise. How do you use it then? -thanks.
Runs fine for me but really does not like my PDFs. Bombs with error message
Unhandled Exception: System.Exception: Error during text extraction from Pdf-file: ..\rates.pdf
Error getting pdf version: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: “TYP”
at TextMiningTool.Readers.PdfFileReader.GetText(String fileName)
at TextMiningTool.FileMaster.GetText(String inputFile)
at MineText.Program.Main(String[] args)
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