[@Peter Blaise]
>”Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor exported a PDF to a text tile, a text file, let me repeat, a text file, and it had spaces between words such that they appeared in the text tile, text file, text file ( did I say “text file” ) as tab-delimited, there was just enough white space after each word to have them line up in columns, …”
What encoding did you export the PDF file as?