RE: PDF to Word or TXT

["Kay Ethier" <kethier -at- travelthepath -dot- com>]

James:

You might check out options for DeQue's tools.  Their unDoc tool allows
output from PDF to XML/HTML. If you want to get to RTF or TXT, they may
have another tool to get to these other formats from PDF. Product info
is on their website: http://www.deque.com .

Note, too, that in multicolumn layouts, you may want to turn your PDF
into a "tagged PDF" using the Acrobat plugin from Adobe's website.
(I've forgotten its name but could look around for it for you.)  Once
the PDF is tagged, the columns should be recognized properly and should
come out as a single text flow.

Good luck,

Kay




-----Original Message-----
From: James MacDougall

Whirlers,

I have several thousand pages of PDF text that I need to convert to a
Word or text file.  The hitch is that the text are all in columns, so a
simple copy and paste won't do, and a page by page copy and paste with
the table text select tool in Adobe is my vision of hell.

Any and all suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

James



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