How do I convert a .pdf file to a .doc file?

Don J

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Sep 2, 2004, 8:21:28 PM9/2/04

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How do I convert a .pdf file to a word .doc file?

Don J

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DA

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Sep 2, 2004, 10:24:32 PM9/2/04

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Hi Don

Best you can probably hope for is to save your PDF as an
RTF (Acrobat 5 or above will let you do this), then
import into word.

Any way you look at it, you'll have to do some fairly
major work in Word to get it looking the same as in the
PDF.

Dennis.

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Graham Mayor

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Sep 3, 2004, 6:54:33 AM9/3/04

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With great difficulty. The whole point of PDF is to produce uneditable
documents. What you can do with them is largely determined by the software
you have available and the level protection applied to the PDF.

The most highly protected files will require the use of a scrolling screen
capture tool such as SnagIt to produce a document that can be read by OCR
software.

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J_Gold

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Sep 3, 2004, 10:23:43 PM9/3/04

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Hi Graham,

I use SnagIt and love it, but it will not capture text in .pdf files.
Unfortunately, I did not know this when I purchased it :-(

http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/faqs.asp#78

Cheers,

Angela

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Graham Mayor

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Sep 4, 2004, 2:03:47 AM9/4/04

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I didn't mean to imply that it would. What it will do is capture the screen
image page by page and OCR software can be used on the resulting image. With
a protected pdf file, that cannot be printed or edited, this is probably the
only way to get at the text - eventually.

Name

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Sep 4, 2004, 11:50:54 AM9/4/04

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Actually, there are a number of very good PDF to .doc (or .rtf, or other
formats) out there. Just think of PDF as a graphic. You're talking
about OCR programs. For best results, full-featured OCR programs like
Abbyy FineReader and OmniPage Pro are good choices with PDF conversion
modules built in. These handle PDF pages with graphics, charts, and
tables quite well with some practice. If one is dealing with PDF files
of merely text, or extremely limited graphics, cheaper (even shareware)
PDF convertors can be located readily with a search engine.

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Graham Mayor

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Sep 4, 2004, 12:51:57 PM9/4/04

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There are some good tools available, but some of them will not work on
protected PDFs which are encrypted files. Of those that do work well
http://www.verypdf.com/ has PDF2TEXT and PDF2WORD which are quite effective.
Finereader wouldn't look at the protected files I tested, but Abbyy has
recently developed a separate PDF converter that may be better.

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