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Converting an pdf document into a word

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by pkak1978

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I urgently need some help on how to convert an adobe acrobat document (.pdf) into a word document.
Any help from techrepublic members.

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by haileyan

Unfortunately, this is not incredibly simple.

First download the trial version of ReadIris:
http://www.irisusa.com/youreview/demo.html

You can open your PDF into ReadIRis and have it scan the document for text and create a Word Document from it. Be aware that OCR (Opticle Character Recognition) is at best only 85% accurate. You will have alot of cleanup to do on this document. Once you convert it to Word.

by rogerrr88

If the author's purpose is to import pdf into word document rather than edit it, he/she didn't need to convert pdf and just import pdf as an picture. The snapshot tool of Adobe reader enables you do that.
If the purpose is to edit pdf files, I advise you use a program to convert pdf to editable word. A good converter will parse original file layout, text, image, graphics and so on then fix and locate them into word files accordingly. There is no much reformatting, cleanup.

by pkak1978

Thanks KenV,
A good suggestion from you, I have a full Acrobat Package version 5, but did not find a word ouput/ export option. I donot know if latter versions have it.

Peter.

by pkak1978

Thanks Mex,
I have read the success stories from solidpdf's website, sound very good, I will find some bucks to try it.
Peter.

by pkak1978

Thanks jhartl,
Good but this document contains plenty pages with tables and graphics and also keeping the formatting is vital .
Peter

by glyall

If you have a scanner. You can scan the document into Word. If you scanning program imports into Word.

Good luck

by pkak1978

Thanks glyall,
Good but this document contains tables and graphics which many OCR Softwares do not handle quite well.
Peter

by fuzzypup

Scansoft PDF Converter for MS Word. About $50 for software. Converts PDF directly to Word from Word File menu.

by pkak1978

Thanks Fuzzy,
I have read the success stories from solidpdf's website, sound very good, I will find some bucks to try it.
Peter.

by pkak1978

Thanks ynneb,
Good but this document contains plenty pages with tables and graphics and also keeping the formatting is vital, your suggestion works quite well for pure text documents.
Peter

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