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title: "PDF to Text Modifier"
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description: "Information about the PDF to Text modifier."
updated: 2026-06-22T10:26:42Z
published: 2026-06-22T10:26:42Z
canonical: "kb.lasernetgroup.com/pdf-to-text-modifier"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# PDF to Text Modifier

**Applies to:** Lasernet Core 11

All the pages in a PDF document are converted to text format as output with a FormFeed character (HEX 0C) as a splitter character between the pages.

![The PDF to Text modifier Setup tab.](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/PDF to Text Properties.png)

The parameters to define the output text settings are:

- **Portrait Columns:** (Default=200). Recommended value for PDF documents (in Letter or A4 portrait format) is 200 columns.
- **Portrait Rows:** (Default=140). Recommended value for PDF documents (in Letter or A4 portrait format) is 140 rows.
- **Landscape Columns:** (Default=300). Recommended value for PDF documents (in Letter or A4 landscape format) is 300 columns.
- **Landscape Rows:** (Default=100). Recommended value for PDF documents (in Letter or A4 landscape format) is 100 rows.
- Options:
  - **Remove rotated text:** Prevent any characters rotated more than 5% in the PDF input from appearing in the text output.
  - **Remove underscores:** Prevent underscores (HEX 5F) from appearing in the text output.
  - **Remove adjacent periods:** Prevent adjacent period (HEX 2E) characters from appearing in text output. It might be expected that a single period character remains after removing adjacent periods in a string.
  - **Enable auto alignment:** Enable auto-alignment of scanned text. This ensures the best output quality.
  - **Extract metadata:** Highlight OCR Fields in the **Lasernet OCR Editor** > **Preview** window.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> This feature uses a lot of memory and greatly reduces the processing speed for multi-page documents.
  - **Extract form fields:** Extract filled form fields (such as text boxes, list boxes, and checkboxes) from the PDF. For backward compatibility, this option is not enabled by default.