PDF Reflow - Convert PDF to Text

PDF Reflow feature allows you to extract pure text from a PDF page to view it as a simple TXT file, without left-right scrolling, and with a font size of your choice.

PDF Reflow offers many advantages for reading on an iPad, but it is especially useful on a small iPhone screen.

First, transfer a PDF file to GoodReader (see: How To Import Files & Folders), then tap the file name to open it.

Use the PDF Reflow button to switch to the PDF Reflow mode:

Use all reading techniques that you usually use for reading TXT files, including Autoscroll.

You can quickly go back to the original PDF page by pressing the back button on the Navigation Menu. For your convenience, we have reserved the same zone of the screen for the same purpose when the Navigation Menu is off. Just tap where the back button is supposed to be, and you`ll get back to the original PDF page:

There are a few options in PDF Reflow Settings that help break lines correctly depending on a text formatting style. (Please see the note below on word and line breaks in PDF files.)

• Double-break per paragraph. Inserts two line-breaks between groups of lines that are distant from each other (considered as paragraphs). Treats a group of close lines as a continuous text. Useful for book-like or article-like formatting. Larger line spacing switch helps to determine which lines are "close" to each other, and which are not. Many Asian texts require a larger line spacing option to be on.
• Single break per paragraph. The same as the previous setting, but inserts a single line-break between paragraphs.
• Break every line. Inserts line-break at the end of every visual line. Useful with tables, where lines are close to each other, making it look like it`s a single paragraph, but actually meant to be separate from each other.
• No line-breaks. Treats all text on a page as a continious text stream. Use it if all other options produce an undesirable result.

Notice for right-to-left readers (Hebrew, Arabic, and others).
Some PDF files with right-to-left texts instead of encoding text as they should – from right to left – actually contain text characters physically stored in the file in the left-to-right (normal for European writing but reversed for right-to-left one) order. This was not the doing of an actual author of the text but of the PDF Composer software used to produce the file. GoodReader extracts text in the order as it appears in the file, not as it visually appears on the page, which may make the text look reversed in the Reflow mode.