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Traditional information retrieval methods become inadequate for increasing vast amount of data. Without knowing what could be in the documents; it is difficult to formulate effective queries for analyzing and extracting useful information from the data. This survey focused on some of the present strategies used for filtering documents. Starting with different types of text features this paper has discussed about recent developments in the field of classification of text documents. This paper gives a concise study of methods proposed by different researchers. Here various preprocessing steps were also discussed with a comprehensive and comparative understanding of existing literature.