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Converting to accessible text
You can convert a PDF document to accessible text or plain text. Accessible text follows
the reading order preference selected in the Reading preferences, and includes comments
and form fields in its output. Accessible text also includes some formatting, such as line
breaks. Any alternate text in the document tags is used in place of images and figures.
Plain text follows the structure order of text in the document and ignores all artifacts and
figure elements in the conversion. Hard hyphens are preserved, and soft hyphens are
removed.
For information on converting PDF documents to plain text, see Conversion options for
HTML, XML, or plain text format.
To convert an Adobe PDF document to accessible .txt format:
In the Save As dialog box, choose Text (Accessible)(*.txt) for Save As Type (Windows)
or Format (Mac OS), and click Save.