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Subject:RE: Looking for a miracle From:"Bjorgan, Robin" <Robin_Bjorgan -at- Affymetrix -dot- com> To:<klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:52:03 -0700
Tech Writers,
I use Solid Converter's PDF "PDF to Word." Works fine for me.
Robin
Robin Bjorgan, Senior Technical Writer, Marketing, Affymetrix, Inc. 3420
Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051, 408.731.5994
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Subject: RE: Looking for a miracle
Have you tried running a printed PDF through a scanner with OCR
software? That probably would require a lot of editing afterward, but
maybe it would capture some of the PDF content directly.
>
> Hello All -
>
> After a hard drive crash I learned that the only remaining
> copy of a
> manual I'm working on is in PDF. The source is in
> Word. I have Adobe
> 8.0 loaded and have done a "save as" to get the
> manual to open in Word
> but it appears that the resulting Word file is limited to
> an image of
> the PDF content.
>
> Is there any way that the PDF can be converted to a
> straight editable
> Word document?
>
> Elizabeth
>
> P.S. No mail please about the hard drive crash, backing
> up, etc.
> That's been handled.
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