There are a few ways to extract text from a PDF file, depending on your needs: 1. Copy and paste: If the PDF contains selectable text (i.e., not an image of text), you can simply select the text with your mouse cursor and use the copy and paste commands to extract it. 2. Adobe Acrobat: If you have Adobe Acrobat, you can use the "Export PDF" option to convert the PDF to a Word or TXT file, which will contain all the text. 3. Online tools: There are many free online tools that can extract text from a PDF. Some examples include PDF to Text, PDF to Word, and SmallPDF. 4. Third-party software: There are many third-party software programs that can extract text from a PDF. Some examples include Nitro PDF, PDF Converter Elite, and ABBYY FineReader.