Re: PDF to Word

["Lin Sims" <linda -dot- sims -at- verizon -dot- net>]

Acrobat 5 (*not* the Acrobat Reader) can convert a PDF file to RTF so 
long as the file hasn't been security protected in some way.

On 21 Feb 2002 at 12:17, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:

> On Thu 21 Feb, Uma_Nakkeeran bloviated thus:
> 
> > Is there any utility/ tool available for converting PDF to Word? 
> 
> Not as far as I know.  You may be able to copy out the text and
> graphics if the PDF author has allowed it, but you will lose text
> formatting and the images may not be high quality.
> 
> There is a tool to extract the text from postscript files (the basis
> of PDF) called ps2pdf.  Not sure if it's available for Windows but it
> comes with most Linux distributions.
Lin Sims

Of course I'm willing to take 'No' for an answer, so long as 'No' was the 
answer I was looking for.


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