[Hidden-tech] Converting PDFs to Word?

[Seth Seeger]

As he says, extracting text from PDFs can create ugly looking text that
has to be heavily re-formatted.  Take the text of the article (before it
was put into a PDF) and cut-and-paste it into a Word document.

It sounds like he'd also like all the images sent along as well.  Then
include the PDF so he can see how it's all supposed to go together.

-Seth

Eddy Goldberg wrote:
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> Hi H-Ters,
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> I'm editor at 2 quarterly business magazines. We publish in print and
> online.
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> (Yes, I'm a H-T member, since the beginning, and live here in the Happy
> Valley.)
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> We're looking for the simplest, most automated (if possible) way to
> convert the final PDF files we send our printer into MS-Word so our
> webmaster can post the upcoming issue online ASAP. Our Art director is
> doing it manually now, not the best use of her time. Here's what our
> webmaster wrote:
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> "I need articles in MS Word, plus I need a PDF copy of the magazine so
> that we can use it as a guide when posting the articles, as well as
> extract the images from the PDFs for use in the online articles. We will
> not pull content from the PDF copy as Acrobat does nasty things to text
> when you pull it out of a PDF. It's a nightmare to work with
> PDF-extracted text."
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> Questions:
> 1) Any help with converting PDFs to Word?
> 2) Is there a better way to do this?
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> Thanks for any ideas,
> Eddy
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