As most information (over 80%) is stored as text, text mining is believed to have a high commercial potential value. knowledge may be discovered from many sources of information; yet, unstructured texts remain the largest readily available source of knowledge .Text classification which classifies the documents according to predefined categories .In this paper we are tried to give the introduction of text classification, process of text classification as well as the overview of the classifiers and tried to compare the some existing classifier on basis of few criteria like time complexity, principal and performance.