Cannot Save as Plain Text

I am unable to Save As to Plain Text. Need to convert PDF to Plain text. I can Save As Word, but I need to save as plain text.
When it converts and the new text file is opened it is empty.
Jill

If you are using Acrobat 10 or 11 Pro try using "Recognize Text" -- on this file.
Maybe the document was scanned. A scanned document does not contain any text, it is just a picture. Recognize text will do Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on the document and then you can save as text. You will have to watch for errors in the OCR. Sometimes it has difficulty discerning the characters.

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