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PDF to DOC

  • 01-01-2006 9:00pm
    #1
    Chucky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭


    Hey,

    Does anybody know of a free PDF to DOC converter?


    Thanks,
    Kevin.


Comments

  • #2
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,531 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Can't think of one offhand, but for unprotected documents you can select all of the text and copy/paste into a document.


  • #3
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    Try http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
    No pdf to doc, but they have pdf to text only.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    BopNiblets wrote:
    Try http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
    No pdf to doc, but they have pdf to text only.
    Adobe are number 2 in the big software company league and a lot of it is due to people not being able to easily extract info from portected PDF's

    use pdf creator to print to a tiff or similar and then import with the OCR sw in office 2003 - or use other OCR like smart projects one if you use any other app for wordprocessing.


  • #5
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    http://www.verypdf.com/pdf2word/
    Reading the FAQ, rather, between the lines of the FAQ-i wouldn't expect great quality to be honest..


  • #6
    Chucky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Chucky


    Yeh it's a protected PDF, hence the problem. I will try the ideas mentioned here. Thank you.


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  • #7
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    If its protected probably no chance. If it wasn't you could tell Adobe website to convert it into html for you.


  • #8
    Heinrich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,577 ✭✭✭Heinrich


    If you can get your hands on Omnipage Pro you can scan the document in Truepage for Word.


  • #9
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Chucky wrote:
    Yeh it's a protected PDF, hence the problem. I will try the ideas mentioned here. Thank you.
    Forgot to mention
    copyright automatically exists when a work is created.
    and if the document is protected then you just have to assume that they aren't allowing you to copy it.


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