top of page

Doxillion Document Converter


A free version of NCH Software's Doxillion Document Converter can be downloaded here:

The software can convert Word documents, PDFs, Excel files, and files of many other formats to the .docx, .txt., .rtf, .html, .odt, .pdf, and .xml formats.

As you can see in this example, it will successfully convert .pdf files to text files. The litigation support or paralegal will find it helpful to note that this utility will successfully transfer the headers of PDFs to text files. I have had problems with Adobe Acrobat omitting the headers of the PDF of PACER federal court filings from the text files it generates with Acrobat actions. Testing the same sample files with Doxillion showed that Acrobat's errors were not repeated with NCH's program. This is very helpful if you want to pull the dates from the headers to rename the files, or pull the case numbers to help file them.

Incidentally I had tried exporting the files from Acrobat first as .rtf files (which does preserve the case information in the headers) and them converting them to .txt files with the free utillity found here, posted on the blog of Emre Akkas, which while it did give me text files with case information in the headings, it did so in a format on which findstr did not run successfully. This was not a problem with the Doxillion converted files.


Sean O'Shea has more than 20 years of experience in the litigation support field with major law firms in New York and San Francisco.   He is an ACEDS Certified eDiscovery Specialist and a Relativity Certified Administrator.

​

The views expressed in this blog are those of the owner and do not reflect the views or opinions of the owner’s employer.

​

If you have a question or comment about this blog, please make a submission using the form to the right. 

Your details were sent successfully!

© 2015 by Sean O'Shea . Proudly created with Wix.com

bottom of page