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| Thread ID: 63196 | 2005-11-01 19:33:00 | PDF to Word...need help! | starente (9188) | Press F1 |
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| 401089 | 2005-11-01 19:33:00 | Hello I bought a 3rd party software program to convert a pdf file to Word. It worked OK but someone is now trying to manipulate the Word document and do a lot of reformatting to it. The document is 300 pages long. Each line of text now has a text box around it. When you try to format it you are unable to. Has anyone ever encountered this and do you know a fix? Thanks! :badpc: :badpc: |
starente (9188) | ||
| 401090 | 2005-11-01 22:22:00 | What program did you use, what does it claim to be able to do, and have you read the help file? Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 401091 | 2005-11-01 23:37:00 | If the original PDF file was created as an "image" then the test will just a series of "pictures" and not be editable when converted to Word. There is not much you can economically do with it, except try to contact the author and get the Word source document? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 401092 | 2005-11-01 23:53:00 | Hi Starente. It is highly likely that the author of the 300 page document converted it to pdf to prevent just what your someone is trying to do. Lot of work in creating an original 300 page doc. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 401093 | 2005-11-02 04:48:00 | Each line of text now has a text box around it. When you try to format it you are unable to.I think some converter programs try to retain the original formatting and page layout by putting all the text into text boxes so they can be positioned exactly on the page. You should still be able to manipulate the text though, but the thought of having to do that for 300 pages is somewhat daunting! Of course you can "save as text" from the acrobat reader which will give you all the text but lose the formatting, if you have the full acrobat, you can save as a Word document, which saves it as rich text and does a much better (but not perfect) job. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 401094 | 2005-11-02 06:04:00 | Try using Nitro PDF. | manicminer (4219) | ||
| 401095 | 2005-11-02 16:15:00 | Thanks for all the input! | starente (9188) | ||
| 401096 | 2005-11-02 16:17:00 | The program is called PDF2Word. | starente (9188) | ||
| 401097 | 2005-11-02 21:46:00 | Hi Starente. It is highly likely that the author of the 300 page document converted it to pdf to prevent just what your someone is trying to do. Lot of work in creating an original 300 page doc. Precisely. I've used PDF Converter which seemed pretty effective but I didn't try to manipulate the resulting Word document. Only a demo tryout. You could scan the document (300 pages :eek: ) and run it through an OCR program to convert to Word. Quite likely to mean a page by page corection though. I think Tony's solution sounds the most effective. Good luck and let us know how you get on. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 401098 | 2005-11-03 01:28:00 | I have Adobe Acrobat. Push come to shove, I can open it and use the Convert to RTF. It won't get your graphics (which you could grab with a trial version of SnagIt from www.techsmith.com), but it'll get your text, and I think it'll be fairly well formatted. Looks like they have PM here, so you could PM me for my email addy if you're interested. :) | Dreamboat (9170) | ||
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