Text Lightning 3.1

TextLightning is a Mac OS X native utility for converting PDF files to RTF format.
TextLightning reconstructs as much of the original formatting as possible, including fonts, paragraphs, justification, margins and international characters as well as ligatures.
PDF is the standard print and interchange format on Mac OS X, in addition to being a widely used cross-platform and standard for exchanging documents via e-mail and the web.
TextLightning will make all these documents accessible from your favorite Mac OS X text editing program as easily as opening the file. Any services-aware application, such as the Apple-supplied TextEdit or any other Cocoa app, gains the ability to open PDF documents as rich text once TextLightning is installed.
Main features:
- convert PDF and Postscript to RTF
- open any printable Mac OS X document
- transparent, system-wide operation
- extract formatted text and font information
- reconstruct paragraphs, with justification, margins and indent
- recognize international characters and ligatures
- recomposes TeX ligatures, accents and umlauts
Enhancements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger compatible
- PDF engine improvements
- handles most encrypted files
- 50 - 100% faster processing
- now a normal application
- no longer relaunched for every filtering operation
- better font substitution for unavailable fonts
- improved recognition accuracy