[Hidden-tech] PDF To Word

[Chris Hoogendyk]

Annamarie Pluhar wrote:
> 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.) 
>
> 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.

take a look at MacLink Plus.

http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/mlp_xlators.html


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