Software Question...

[CarolinaGirl82]

Does anybody know of some cheap, but good software that will convert PDF files into MS Word documents?? Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!

[cboom4250]

http://www.pdfzone.com/article2/0,1895,1815273,00.asp

[CarolinaGirl82]

Thank you for the link, but I have done tried that. It converts it to a word document, but it saved my pages as images...I can't edit it or do anything to it. I did it again, but it still gave me the same outcome as my previous attempt did.

[ColaCock]

try searching for "PDF to Text"...that is probably what you are looking to do. then you can put it in Word if you'd like.

[Spur's Addiction]

Some PDF's you can hit "text select" - then copy / paste to word or wherever.

It's not a direct conversion but it works. But it has to be a PDF generated straight from a file. Not scanned.

[CarolinaGirl82]

Some PDF's you can hit "text select" - then copy / paste to word or wherever.

It's not a direct conversion but it works. But it has to be a PDF generated straight from a file. Not scanned.

Unfortunately, this is a scan. It's about 73 pages long.

[CockySpaniel]

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sorry misread that

[CarolinaGirl82]

nm (http://www.majorgeeks.com/CutePDF_Writer_d5409.html)

misread that

That's ok... I was about to say that I needed to convert a PDF to a word document...not create a PDF... :)

[CarolinaGirl82]

I called the company that we got our copier from and he suggested a program called Omnipage 16. It's like $134 on Amazon, but I was hoping for a cheaper way of going about it....

[Spur's Addiction]

http://www.cybertheater.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/logicool-lw-3000-keyboard.jpg

[CarolinaGirl82]

Dang..What a keyboard! Should have everything I need right there..lol

[CockySpaniel]

Your're going to need more than a pdf to word converter.
First you need an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program to convert the scans to text.-which is an iffy proposition at best even with the best software.

http://www.plu.edu/~libr/workshops/scanning/ocr.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimpleOCR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_%28software%29

[CarolinaGirl82]

Your're going to need more than a pdf to word converter.
First you need an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program to convert the scans to text.-which is an iffy proposition at best even with the best software.

http://www.plu.edu/~libr/workshops/scanning/ocr.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimpleOCR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_%28software%29

Yeah, we got that yesterday...The computer genius here put it on my pc and even that doesn't work right....It was a free version...