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satheeshsoft
satheeshsoft
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July 16, 2019
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File size very less when saving from Acrobat Reader DC (PDF) to .txt

  • July 16, 2019
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I have a 120 MB file (PDF). Contents in that file especially from non English. It includes almost Indian languages. Its a PDF file so i opened from acrobat reader. And copied the contents by 'select All'  then right click 'copy' or 'ctrl c' options/any. 120 MB file so it taken a couple of minutes to copy the entire contents (progress bar).

It copied to clipboard and saved in a txt file normal notepad and 'encoding unicode big endian' format. But the file size became very less in notepad (around 17 MB).

I have doubt that, why this happened this much small file size rater that big size. Does there anything miss out?. i mean any data?

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Correct answer try67

PDF files contain much more information than just text. This is perfectly normal.

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try67
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try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
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July 16, 2019

PDF files contain much more information than just text. This is perfectly normal.

satheeshsoft
satheeshsoftAuthor
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July 16, 2019

its may be the background rectangular window, on that window only the text appears.

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