PDF files are a good way to share documents but extracting text from them can be tricky and time consuming. Zilla PDF to TXT converter is a useful utility for extracting text from either single or multiple documents.

It is very easy to use, there are icons in the top tool bar for adding single files or entire folders. There are no settings to worry about beyond setting a small sound to let you know when the conversion has finished.

There are keyboard shortcuts for all the main features and they are helpfully included in all of the menu options.

Zilla PDF to TXT Converter is freeware, but there is also a shareware utility called PDFZilla that can convert PDFs into a wider variety of formats including Word, RTF, JPEG, TIF and HTML.