Data mining is the knowledge discovery in databases and the gaol is to extract patterns and knowledge from large amounts of data. The important term in data mining is text mining. Text mining extracts the quality information highly from text. Statistical pattern learning is used to high quality information. High –quality in text mining defines the combinations of relevance, novelty and interestingness. Tasks in text mining are text categorization, text clustering, entity extraction and sentiment analysis. Applications of natural language processing and analytical methods are highly preferred to turn text into data for analysis. This survey is about the various techniques and algorithms used in text mining.