# Plain text

Plain text represents the contents of an ordinary sequential document readable as textual material without additional processing.

![RadPdfProcessing Plain text export from a PDF document](https://www.telerik.com/document-processing-libraries/documentation/assets/b43dc691a8108d7c813e4c7937e7c1d0/radpdfprocessing_formats_and_conversion_txt_01.png)

[`TextFormatProvider`](https://www.telerik.com/document-processing-libraries/documentation/libraries/radpdfprocessing/formats-and-conversion/plain-text/textformatprovider) extracts the text content of a document.