Export Text - Mapsoft Redactor Help

The Export Text tool extracts all text content from a PDF document and saves it to an external file. This is useful for reviewing document text before or after redaction, creating text-only copies for analysis, or verifying that redacted content has been fully removed.

Extensions > Mapsoft Redactor > Export Text

Exporting Text

Open a PDF document in Adobe Acrobat.
Choose Extensions > Mapsoft Redactor > Export Text.
Select a page range (all pages or a specific range).
Choose a save location and file name for the output text file.
The plug-in extracts text from each page and writes it to the file.

Output Format

The exported text file contains the extracted text with the following formatting:

Page Separators — Each page's text is preceded by a separator line indicating the page number (e.g., "--- Page 1 ---"), making it easy to locate content by page.
Character Counts — The export includes character count information for each page, useful for verifying content volume before and after redaction.
ASCII / HTML — Text can be exported as plain ASCII text or as HTML with basic formatting preserved, depending on the output file type selected.

Tip

Export the document text both before and after redaction to create a comparison record. This helps verify that all intended content was successfully removed and no sensitive text remains.

Use Cases

Pre-redaction review — Export text to search for sensitive terms before starting the markup process.
Post-redaction verification — Export text from the redacted document to confirm that sensitive content no longer appears in the extracted text.
Content analysis — Use exported text with external tools for automated analysis, keyword frequency counts, or compliance checking.
Archival — Create a plain-text version of the document for text-only archival systems.

Note

Text export extracts only the text layer of the PDF. Images, vector graphics, and non-text content are not included. If the PDF contains scanned images without OCR, the export may yield little or no text.

Exporting Text

Output Format

Use Cases

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