>>I cannot tell what is the "best" as it depends on how the text is displayed/incorporated into the PDF document, and what kind of fonts are used.
>>Also it depends on what kind of application you are going to do (for in_office use, for your own, for distribution, etc).
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>>Anyway, try pdftotext: http://www.aboutlyrics.com/Software/Download/pdftotext.php.
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>Have you personally tried this product? I tried running the file and nothing happened, which scared me a little bit.

Yes, I tried it, and it worked for "my" pdf files created when reports were printed to pdf file via Win2PDF.

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>>There were posts here explaining how to get the PDF document window handler, and how to send keystrokes to the window. In some cases you could use it too.
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>Is this one (from you) one of the ones you mean? Sounds doable. Thanks.

I posted here several examples of how to get information from the pdf file when using this method.
The problem with pdf files in your case however is that what you see as a "text" in pdf file may be not a text but a picture; and then you cannot use the pdf text extraction tool.

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>Alex