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Does it work with scanned PDFs?: Yes. Our OCR engine reads scanned documents and extracts the text accurately.
Is the PDF to text conversion free?: Yes, completely free with no account needed for standard file sizes.
What text formats can I export to?: You can export to TXT. For formatted output, use our PDF to Word converter instead.

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