RE: Convert PDF tables to Word?

[Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Rich asked:
 
 
> I'm having trouble converting a PDF with long tables into a Word file.
> I see there are a lot of different plugins out there also but no 
> procedures for directly getting the tables into Word. I'm using 
> Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended and Word 2003. I've tried saving 
> and exporting it as Word and rtf but no luck. Someone mentioned 
> the PrimoPDF tool in another posting.
 
Tables always present a huge challenge to any tool that tries to
convert PDF back into some editable format. PDF is essentially an
electronic form of a printed document, and has no real notion of 
paragraphs or even of sentences. In a PDF file, you have lines of 
text and you have graphic objects. When there's a table, you 
have a lot of small lines of text that aren't read linearly across 
the page, but do (presumably) make sense when assembled into 
paragraphs and table cells/rows/columns by a human reader. But 
it's really asking a lot to expect a software tool to correctly 
reassemble all those short text fragments based solely on their 
position on the page. 
 
-Fred Ridder
 
 
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