converting PDF document to Word

[m_s]

I have some report files in PDF which I want to convert to Word so that I can
edit them. I have Acrobat Professional 9. I tried to save the document as
Word so that I can edit it, but the results are not what I want as the text
is garbled and shuffled a lot.

I looked at the link
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...-office-word&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1
but the link posted there for Microsoft's site
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;826209) on how to do
that does not work.

I used NitroPDF(www.nitropdf.com) 6.0 version to do that which also does not
allow the documents to be fully editable.

Are there any other tools I should try?

Can someone please advise?

Thanks a lot.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Depending on how your pdf was created, one (tedious) thing you can do
is select the text, page by page, Copy it to the Clipboard, and Paste
it into a Word document. (But some pdf's are just graphics and don't
contain the character information that Acrobat can read.) Apparently
you can't select text from more than one page at a time in Acrobat.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This won't necessarily work any better than exporting it as text. I've found
that selecting and copy/pasting text is especially useless when you're
dealing with a document that was scanned to PDF as a graphic (which is the
case with most of the documents I deal with--the reams of legal documents
acquired in discovery by lawyers). Apparently Acrobat somehow manages to OCR
the text when you copy it, but there are so many absurd copying errors that
a LOT of cleanup is required.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

Depending on how your pdf was created, one (tedious) thing you can do
is select the text, page by page, Copy it to the Clipboard, and Paste
it into a Word document. (But some pdf's are just graphics and don't
contain the character information that Acrobat can read.) Apparently
you can't select text from more than one page at a time in Acrobat.

 

[Graham Mayor]

The whole essence of PDF is that it is not an editable format and any method
you use will have problems. The most succesful method I have tried is to use
Finereader 9 OCR software, which handles PDF quite well, though as with all
OCR, not perfectly.

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