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Subject:RE: PDF to Word Conversion Tool From:JimGroark -at- aol -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 13 Jul 2002 19:21:11 -0400
Ed,
I've found that there are tools that allegedly will "extract", rather than
"convert" text from .PDF files. The process, and the results, seem similar.
I found a number of these by searching ZDnet, using ".PDF" and "extract",
or ".PDF" and "convert" as search terms.
A lot of what you'll find is demo versions of commercial products, such as
"Drake" and Gemini".
Unfortunately, for my needs, I couldn't find anything that worked very
well.
What *I'm* looking for is something that will facilitate extracting multi-
page tables (or what look like tables) from .PDF files which are hundreds
of pages in length. Then, I want to be able to paste the "tables" into
MS Access or MS Excel, for manipulation.
> > Subject: PDF to Word Conversion Tool
> > I remember coming across a posting several months ago about a tool that
> > could convert PDFs to Word documents. Can someone tell me the name of the
> > tool?
> > Thanks,
> > Faith Garrison
> I saw this product on the web a few months ago - then it disappeared before
> I got around to downloading it.
> Now I can't find it, and sure wish I could! If you do please let me know.
> There is (was?) a website that will do this for you...you send the .pdf file
> and their parser sends you back a text file.
> It worked great for me when I wanted to quote excerpted text from a white
> paper.
> I haven't used it lately, but I will see if I can dig it up. In the meantime
> try to Google "convert pdf" and see what you find.
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