How to extract text from PDF files with FileDrop

To extract the text from a single PDF file, upload the PDF file you want to convert or select it from your drive.

Go over the file in FileDrop and select the TXT icon over it and FileDrop will convert the PDF in text. For bulk OCR text extraction see here.

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You can insert the text in your Document by pressing insert or just copy what you need.

insert text in sheets

There are two options when inserting the text in Google Sheets cells.

First, all the text in one cell.

Second, each line of text in it’s own cell.

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Please see the video below for full instructions.

How To Do OCR in Google Sheets and Automatically Extract Text From PDF Files