Foxit Reader, as the icon says its free!!! ......and its 1/10 the size of Adobe Reader and as a result uses less system resources to run. This is a must for all computers!
Convert PDF to text is from the same people who have put together the above site and obviously allows the text copied to be put into any word processing document.
PDFHelper is a freeware running on your local PC. It splits or merges hundreds of PDF pages in seconds. With a text control file, it can also do data-driven splitting.