[Hidden-tech] PDF To Word

[Ron Miller]

You might want to look at PDF Transformer from Abbyy. It goes for  
around $99 and it does a pretty good job of transforming PDFs to  
Word, but in my experience no tool I've seen will do it flawlessly.

Ron


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On Apr 14, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Annamarie Pluhar wrote:

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> Hi all,
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> I have a large project where I need to convert many PDF files to  
> Word. Yes, I know that Acrobat Professional 8 can do it - however  
> it renders the text in text boxes. Not very friendly for word  
> processing. (Unless there is a way to convert them AND have them  
> hold their formatting? I'm assuming not.)
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> Last night I heard about another program for which I'm getting info  
> today. I thought I'd ask here any of you know of a good conversion  
> utility that would retain formatting? The original is in a two  
> column table with headers that repeat on each page and multiple  
> indents of different sizes. I'm on a Mac but have a Windows machine  
> I can use.
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> Thanks for help.
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