TextLib is proudly presents standalone documents conversion component/library for direct reading and text extraction from the following supported formats: MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF and RTF. Docs2text is divided into several parsers, each one is responsible for its format. Below is a brief feature list of each component.
doc2text:
- doesn't require MS Word to process documents;
- fastest possible processing speed - up to 200-300 times faster than using MS Word automation;
- precise output - in most cases output is better than MS Word «Save As Text» does;
- full extraction of tables, numbered and bulleted lists, headers, footers;
- document summary extraction - author, title, keywords etc.;

pdf2text:
- doesn't require Adobe Acrobat to process documents;
- doesn't based on xPDF sources;
- fastest processing speed - up to 100 times faster than its competitors as our customers independent researches shows (see the chart below);
- support of multilanguage documents, including Asian text (CJK);
- support of rotated pages;
- read password protected PDFs;
- advanced text preprocessing, including shadow or duplicated text removal, restoration original document layout etc.

xls2text:
- doesn't require MS Excel to process documents;
- supports headers/footers;
- supports sheets names;
- supports comments;
- supports full number format;

ppt2text:
- doesn't require MS PowerPoint to process documents;
- supports text objects extraction;
- supports notes and comments extraction;