Ya, hear you. I need my process to act like this text file is an electronic document. I can build in rules to my workflow to handle this. 

I also had issue with users uploading the resumes in Text file format so my resolution there was to not allow text files. It was confusing my HR folks when they went to open the resume. 

Thanks. 

Quick thought on this Lucas, though you may have already handled it. I have a script that I'm using to export things similar to you. I basically have it checking if it's an e-doc, if not does it have image pages, if not export text. Here's the gist:

if(docToExport.IsElectronicDocument)
{
	//export as edoc
}
 else
{
	bool hasImages = false;
	pageCount = docToExport.PageCount;
	foreach(PageInfo currentPage in docToExport.GetPageInfos())
	{
		if(currentPage.HasImage == true)
		{
			hasImages = true;
		}
	}

	if(hasImages)
	{
		//export as image doc
	}
	else
	{
		//this exports all the text pages into a txt file
		var allText = new List<string>();
		string currentText = "";
		expExt = ".txt";
		foreach(PageInfo currentPage in docToExport.GetPageInfos(docToExport.AllPages))
		{
			if(currentPage.HasText)
			{
				using(StreamReader textReader = currentPage.ReadTextPagePart())
				{
					currentText = textReader.ReadToEnd();
					if(currentText.Length > 0)
					{
						allText.Add(currentText);
						pagesExported++;
					} //end if text actually found
				} //end using streamreader
			}
		}//end iterating through each page

		try
		{
			File.WriteAllLines(fullPath + fileName + expExt, allText);
			exportSuccess = true;
		}
		catch(Exception e)
		{
			exportNotes = "Error exporting TXT: " + e.Message;
		}
	}//end else TXT file
}