[Hidden-tech] Converting PDFs to Word?

[Ron Miller]

Hi Eddy:
I recommend you look at at a tool called Abby PDF Transformer. It's  
reasonably priced at $99 and it does a decent job of converting to  
Word. Just understand that no process is likely to be completely clean  
unless it's a very simple document and may require at least light  
formatting cleanup.

You can learn more about this tool at:

http://www.abbyyusa.com/shop/PDFT.htm

At the very least you can try it and see how well it works on your  
documents.

Ron


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On Dec 15, 2008, at 9:40 AM, 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.
>
> (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:
>
> "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."
>
> Questions:
> 1) Any help with converting PDFs to Word?
> 2) Is there a better way to do this?
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
> Eddy
>
> Eddy Goldberg, Managing Editor
> Franchise Update Media Group
> 413-256-6616
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