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PDF to Word?

  • 23-11-2004 8:28pm
    #1
    daibhad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭


    Anybody know of a free pdf -> word program?

    Or anyway of converting a pdf file to a word document?

    The pdf is normally made up of images and it needs to be automatic so I can't just copy and paste images.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    www.solidpdf.com will give a 15 day trial


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Do you want OCR to extract the text ?
    or do you just want the images in Word ?

    You could use pdfcreator to generate tiff's or jpg's from the pdf's and then use OCR (office 2003 has an add on for this that exports to word) to read them, or someone may know a word macro to insert image files into word..


  • #4
    daibhad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭daibhad


    Well it's for the marketing people at work, so I think "OCR" might confuse them :P

    I'l have a look at that program and pdfwriter.

    Anymore ideas, keep them coming.

    Cheers


  • #5
    fatmander
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭fatmander


    I remember there is a really simple way of doing this(but I can't remember) without software in much
    the same way, but found a link that has a free app should work the same way
    http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/File_Maintenance_and_Repair_Utilities/AcroPDF.html


  • #6
    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭RicardoSmith


    The images will be copied to the word doc as images unless you use OCR to do it. Either use a app like in the link about or you can script it using Javascript and VBA. But its not easy to do.


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  • #7
    deevey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 707 ✭✭✭deevey


    Have the images been scanned and then converted to a PDF ? or was it originally a word doc inc images converted ?


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