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Comment from Joleen on 2010-09-05

2010-09-06T04:05:32Z

I downloaded a free program called PDF995 which worked great until I got my Acrobat distiller.

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Comment from Dieter on 2010-07-28

2010-07-28T12:48:26Z

Try the link below it's freeware for personal use
at least text or pictures can be extracted and use to create a new document. It's available for Windows and Linux

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

Good luck

Dieter

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Comment from whs on 2010-07-28

2010-07-28T12:35:45Z

There are tons of programs that can do that. See here: http://www.google.de/search?q=convert+.pdf+to+.doc&rlz=1I7DDDE_en-GB&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&redir_esc=&ei=xyNQTKWGOoWNOMv5zdAN

There are tons that will try to do that. By definition they cannot succeed on all PDFs, and most people are disappointed with the results. It's not a simple conversion at all.

29-Jul-2010

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Comment from Meublir delVIdeo on 2010-07-28

2010-07-28T07:36:57Z

I have found that if you click edit>select all>copy then open a word blank page and paste you can save the pasting as a word .doc document. Granted you lose the formatting but you can alter the pasted copy any way you want, even filling in the blanks if so desired.(again, this changes the formatting but it's really quite simple to fix...)

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Comment from Mudassir Ammaar Janjua on 2010-07-28

2010-07-28T07:30:02Z

Well! respected friend this time you have to use a technique which will pass from 3 Stages by using 2 Softwares, you will find a good result.
2 Softwares named below:
1) Adobe Acrobat 3D Ver.8/ use any software that convert PDF file into Image.
2) OmniPage 14 that will scan image as it is then you can save it as Word document file.

Remember in your prayers.

I can help you if you need any more about it regarding software.

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Comment from Hooda on 2010-07-27

2010-07-28T05:07:32Z

i use a small utility called pdf2word
works effectively for me.

Link: www.hellopdf.com

May be it can be helpful for you too.

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Comment from andy on 2010-07-27

2010-07-27T23:40:50Z

I agree with Rob.
http://www.pdfonline.com/pdf2word/index.asp

This site can produce a word document with all the pictures, appearing exactly as the PDF does. If using paste special then you will get a word doc that is easily edited.

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Comment from Kevin Warrington on 2010-07-27

2010-07-27T23:38:06Z

Simple, free and very effective conversion can be done using free OpenOffice and free Sun PDF Import Extension.

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Comment from Rohn on 2010-07-27

2010-07-27T22:13:23Z

As Leo has already said, PDF format is designed to preserve formatting of a document. Although there are a few security features built into the PDF standard they are weak. PDF can be set to defeat simple copy and editing with other tools (that may add comments to unprotected PDFs). But the bottom line is that with some effort PDF content, text and graphics, can be copied or extracted one way or another.

If you want to ensure unchanged content, you should rely on a "Digital Signature" generated by an encryption tool. I'm not sure how well they work with PDFs, but I know that "Digital Signatures" are the way to go with text files like Word DOCs.

Actually, MS Office provides a way, kinda, of extracting text from PDFs. In the Office Tools feature, you can find the Document Imaging Tool. It opens graphic files, TIFF and MDI, and performs OCR to extract the text. So to make this work, you have to use a tool (there are many free websites that will do it for you) to convert the PDF to image format. Or you can do it "at home" as follows, Process to Convert PDF to DOC:
Irfanview needs optional Plugins installed to open PDF files.
� Open the PDF in Irfanview
� Save AS TIF format
� Open the TIF version in Microsoft Office Document Imaging tool
� Tools / Recognize Text Using OCR �
� Tools / Send Text to Word �

I have tried several PDF to DOC conversion tools over the years. The one feature/defect that I have learned to check for is whether the converted text is put into a single paragraph or if each line is put into separate "Text Box" in a misguided effort to maintain the explicit line breaks. If each line is in a separate box, it is effectively un-editable. In that case I uninstall the conversion software immediately as a waste of time.

Here are links to some articles:
http://www.gohtm.com/ is a free service that converts pdf, word, xls, ppt to html. Including jpegs.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html converts any pdf file to html.

http://www.pdfzone.com/article2/0,1759,1815273,00.asp - Converting PDF to DOC (check the PDFZone site, they have lots more similar pages!)

http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=1317&zoneid=12 - Converting PDF to Word

http://www.ofzenandcomputing.com/zanswers/1017

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Comment from Geoff. on 2010-07-27

2010-07-27T21:32:06Z

I heard once that the main object of PDF file was that it can't be altered thus if an offer to purchase something for �x that figure could not be altered and could be legaly relied on.?

I don't think that was ever a goal. Nonetheless, practical reality is that they can be altered.

29-Jul-2010

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Comment from Rob on 2010-07-27

2010-07-27T19:10:59Z

different site and not sure if it does the same as the pdftoword site but this looks similar.
http://www.pdfonline.com/pdf2word/index.asp

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Comment from Tim on 2010-07-27

2010-07-27T19:04:08Z

Gmail just added the ability to convert pdf to doc when uploading to docs. Have not tried it myself, but since it's google I have the feeling it'll not be too bad.

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Comment from Douglas Johnson on 2010-07-27

2010-07-27T18:08:01Z

My major problem with PDF conversions is that I am subject to notification mandates from the local federal court, and the list of people to be notifed are furnished to me in PDF format. The PDFs are supposed to be compatible with Avery labels, but they seldom are. I need to convert documents that I did not originate in order to generate mailing labels. So far the only way I have found to do this is the old fashioned manual keyboard.

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Comment from John on 2010-07-27

2010-07-27T15:28:50Z

The best PDF to Word converter, which I use every day, is ABBYY PDF Transformer. It will produce a Word document that exactly matches the original PDF, once you get to know how to use it. Unfortunately, its a professional tool and is not cheap (about $100).

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Comment from Jonathan V. on 2010-07-26

2010-07-26T16:31:14Z

Link didn't come through on my last comment:
http://www.pdftoword.com/

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Comment from Jonathan V. on 2010-07-26

2010-07-26T16:30:40Z

Yet another PDF converter:
I've had pretty good results with , even for relatively complex documents.

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Comment from Tony on 2010-07-25

2010-07-26T04:59:23Z

I thought one of the purposes of PDF was security. Rather than send an editable Word or Excel document via email, some people deliberately convert to PDF so that the recipient cannot tamper with it.

In the work environment we sometimes pull up reports from our accounting program, save them as PDFs, then use a program called Able2Extract to convert them to Excel spreadsheets if we want to work with the information. There's an option for Word conversions as well.

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Comment from Mary on 2010-07-25

2010-07-26T04:46:06Z

One more free PDF to Word converter.

http://www.pdfonline.com/pdf2word/index.asp

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Comment from The Dr. on 2010-07-24

2010-07-24T13:50:01Z

I find this site does a superb job at converting PDF files to Word:
http://www.scannedpdftoword.com/

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Comment from Mark Jacobs on 2010-07-24

2010-07-24T09:03:13Z

@Maria. The only way you can save a pdf document as a Word file is if you have a program such as Adobe Acrobat or Foxit Pro. Adobe & Foxit Readers can't do that. An OCR program can, but the output would need a bit of work to get it formatted like the original. You can select, copy and paste the data into Word that you want to copy, but often the layout will be so weird it would take a long time to fix up. One of the best OCR programs I've found for preserving layout is FineReader but the Word document it produces can sometimes be very hard to edit properly.

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Comment from Maria on 2010-07-23

2010-07-24T02:22:36Z

Well, you can try saving it as a word doc & if you are lucky, you can play around with it or yank your hair out trying, lol or save it as text, then copy to Word & format the whole doc to your liking. PDF's are meant to be as is with no changes.

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