Text Mining Tool is a freeware program that can convert pdf, doc, rtf, chm, html files to text (extracting text) without need to have installed any other programs like Word, Acrobat, etc.

Its one of the most important features - simple and user-friendly interface with hotkeys available. It includes also the console tool minetext, which can be helpful for developers or system administrators. The tool is based on .NET 2.0 Framework which should be installed from microsoft.com if you do not have one.