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by micahfay

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Is there any way to convert a pdf file to a doc file and if so how do i go about doing it?

Thank you in advance

Micah

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by thechas

It depends on what the security and copyright settings are in the PDF file.
Adobe set up the PDF format to be a secure format for authors to share data with controls to make it difficult for other people to plagiarize the material.

If the security and copyright settings allow it, you should be able to open the file in Adobe Acrobat (not Acrobat Reader), and save it as a DOC, or at least copy and paste the text from Acrobat to Word.

There are a few 3rd party programs out there that allow you to convert PDF files to other formats, but I believe they have the same limitations.

The "longhand" way would be to print out the PDF, scan the pages, use a scan to text converter (Text-Bridge) to convert the image to a document.

Chas

by guruofdos

The program you need is Adobe Acrobat Distiller. This comes as part of the full Acrobat package and allows extraction of text to be pasted into word docs.

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