Text Mining Tool 
 Posted October 6, 2007  Comments(6) 
Rating: 4

Version tested: 1.1.42

Description: 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 dont 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.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Text Mining Tool is a freeware program for extraction of text from files of the next types: 
pdf, doc, rtf, chm, html without need to have installed any other programs like Word, Arcrobat, etc. 


 Its comfortable and easy usage is defined by the following key features: 

No payment or license restrictions. Tool is absolutely free. 
Works as PDF, DOC, RTF, CHM, HTML converter to text. 
User-friendly interface with hotkeys available. 
Console tool minetext is included. 
.NET 2.0 framework based. 



Additional information
For the sake of convinience the following hotkeys can be used to perform the operations: 

Open - F3 or O. 
Save - F2 or S. 
Clipboard - F5 or C. 
Exit - F10 or Escape. 

The included console tool minetext, which can be helpful for developers or system administrators, has such syntax: 

minetext <input file>

minetext <input file> <output file>

where:

  <input file>  - any file with one of the following extensions: 
                  pdf, doc, rtf, chm, htm, html
  <output file> - file you want to write text mined from input file
		
------------------------------------------------------------------------------