Dirprint extracts a list of all files in a certain folder into a txt-file.
there must be likewise tools with more features and languages, but Dirprint is the tool I use right now

Title: Dirprint
Languages: Dutch/English
Compatibility: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP, 7
License: freeware
Author's description: With this program, you can print a file listing or a tree-like structure from any folder on your hard drive or a shared directory on the network. You can sort the listing by any criterion and apply filters. (Tucows)
website: http://users.adam.com.au/paulwh/DirPrint.html

Would like to know more about it.

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The same can be done using DirHTML as well as using Q-Dir's export feature.

Directory listing can also be saved to text file using Explorer++