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RE: Question time - Any PDF to Word Conversion tools
Subject:RE: Question time - Any PDF to Word Conversion tools From:"Sean Brierley" <sbri -at- haestad -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:00:26 -0500
1) Yes. See www.pdfzone.com or www.planetpdf.com for third-party
utilities. Acrobat 5 has a limited save as RTF function. Oh, and maybe
Omnipage can do this by scanning a print-out of the PDF.
2) Not really. Acrobat simply is not a word processor and does not store
that info. Consider it to be an electronic version of the printed
page--the book on your shelf wouldn't contain formatting info useful in
Word even though it is laid out.
3) Not really. Best bet: third-party utilities. This seems the same as
#2.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anton [mailto:tronajc -at- juno -dot- com]
Quick 4 questions to all - I need to convert several, varying old PDF
files to Word Documents. Cross posted to Hatt list
These PDF are of varying age and settings and format - But due to
consistence issues and others (lets not go there) need to be upgraded
(From Word - No choice here) but kept the same.
>From the Archives - I see Lots on PDF to Word / Framemaker / ect.
But not on PDF to whatever.
So My Questions are
1 Is there any way to convert PDF documents to Word ?
2 Is there a way of keeping the text / style formatting ?
3 Apart from Coping page for page or Selecting Copy all and
Paste to Word reapplying the old styles - is there a better way ?
and last question anything on the Freeware / shareware / demo market
that will make this conversion process less painful ?
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