pdf to Word

[Nahshon Evren]

Hi

I've been trying several .pdf to Word converters,
none seem good enough for recuperating original
formats especially when reuperating tables and figures

Does anyone have any good idea about which pdf to Word
converter is the most effective for preserving formats (any including
scientific tables and graphs?!)

Many many many -

Thanks

Nash

 

[Jezebel]

The issue is not so much the application for converting PDF to Word, but the
application from which the PDF was created in the first place. Some document
formats just don't convert very well to Word.

If you convert a Word document to PDF than back, you generally get something
pretty close to the original; but if the original was created by something
that uses a very different object model (like PageMaker, Publisher, Corel,
etc), then the resulting Word document will likely be a pig's breakfast,
whatever you use for the conversion.

 

[Nahshon Evren]

OK so there's no 'ultimate' soft to get the thing perfect -
the options are between a mess and a rat's nest ?



N

 

[Graham Mayor]

The whole point of PDF is to create a fixed format graphical representation
of the original document. It is not intended to be deconstructed. You can do
that but not without some personal input.

The best tool I have found for the job is Abbyy Finereader's OCR software,
but even that will not give you a true copy of the original document without
putting in some work of your own.

On the other hand a Word document opened on a different PC with different
fonts and printer driver will not look the same either - which is where PDF
came in in the first place.

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[Nahshon Evren]

Thanks for the information -I always thought the point of pdf
was to simply compress a file - am I wrong ?

 

[Dawn Crosier, Word MVP]

PDF stands for Portable Document Format. The point was to be able to
electronically send documents to others who may or may not have the original
software (Word / WordPerfect / Lotus / etc.) This way anyone with the free
reader can read the document. Changes should be requested of the originator.
PDF documents are also a method for storing paper documents electronically.
Most scanners now create PDF files for use. Sometimes the documents are
OCR'd and sometimes they are not.

--
Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
"Education Lasts a Lifetime"

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[Graham Mayor]

Yes. PDF has nothing to do with compression. If you want compression you
need WinZip, WinRar or similar.

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[Nahshon Evren]

OK everyone I work with seems to systematically convert
eveything to .pdf - I don't see the point really as everyone
uses Word so... I'm convinced most people think .pdf compresses !

 

[Jezebel]

Disabuse yourself of that conviction: that's just projecting your own
misconception onto others.

 

[Nahshon Evren]

Disabuse yourself of that conviction: that's just projecting your own
misconception onto others.

euh sorry must be in the wrong group - what's with the Wallmart psychology
stuff ?