Chit said:
Any way to convert an Acrobat PDF document to a Word doc?
For some documents, you can select the text in Preview or Acrobat
Reader and paste the result into Word a page at a time. It may
concatenate the word at the end of a line with the first word on the
follwing line. Double columns may be frustrating.
The full expensive copy of Acrobat will do a better job on some
documents. You can never be sure that the document will ever come back
out editable. PDF is Postscript with measles. There is nothing to stop
the author writing all the 'e's on a page, then all the 't's... It
still looks pretty, but then you need something pretty close to an OCR
package to turn it back to something editable.
Without forking out for the full Acrobat, which in my view is wickedly
overpriced for anyone but a pro doing serious pre-press work, I find
the fastest way often is to print the damn thing on paper, then scan
and OCR it back in. It seems to work better than trying to OCR a screen
grab.
Yes, it is a ghastly kluge, you kinda get the idea that PDFs are meant
to be read or printed, and never edited ever again.
