[Hidden-tech] Converting pdf to Word doc

[Robert Heller]

One other thought:

Most/all *Linux* systems can have a package called Poppler, which is a PDF
rendering library (a fork of the xpdf PDF viewer developed by Derek Noonburg
of Glyph and Cog, LLC.). Included as part of Poppler are a collection of
command line utilities, including pdftohtml and pdftotext. Assuming that the
PDF contains the actual text, either of these utilities can extract it. It is
my understanding the MS-Word is capable of importing HTML (I don't know for
sure -- I don't use MS-Word).  I don't know if Poppler is available for 
MS-Winodws.  It *might* be available for MacOSX, but I don't know that either.


At Sat, 29 Oct 2016 05:20:17 -0600 Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com> wrote:

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> 
> 
> Mac's Preview app, which opens both PDFs and photos, also has an Export
> command in the file menu. If you don't have the full Acrobat, that might
> (or might not) work.
> 
> Another idea: you can send the PDF but also post the raw text on
> Draftin.com, where the client can easily edit. Then you can make the
> client's changes in your original source document and generate a new PDF.
> Not as good as simply converting it, but depending on WHY the client wants
> it in Word, it may address the actual need. It's an easy no-cost solution
> that takes under two minutes to set up
> 
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> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Rich Roth <webmaster at hidden-tech.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > This only works if the PDF includes the text under the image, otherwise
> > the image needs to be processed with an OCR scanner (software) that can
> > interpret the image of the text.
> >
> > The full version of acrobat can do this sometimes, if the image is very
> > clean, otherwise a more advanced OCR processor is needed.
> >
> >
> > On 10/28/2016 9:40 PM, Joan Long wrote:
> > > Not totally sure- but in Acrobat I think you can select File- Export-
> > and select Word...?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Joan Long
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> > >
> > >> On Oct 28, 2016, at 4:45 PM, Deborah Chandler <debchandler411 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi folks,
> > >>
> > >> I have a pdf that a client has asked I translate into a Word doc, for
> > >> email campaign use asap.
> > >>
> > >> My last few hours trying to get free trial software to work has been
> > >> unsuccessful. I tried NitroPro and Cisdem. Cisdem looked like it was
> > >> going to work, but the Word doc came back all just unformatted text
> > >> and none of my images showed up.
> > >>
> > >> If someone is willing to convert the file for me, I would be grateful.
> > >> I already converted all fonts to outlines. The file is 2.4MB. IF best
> > >> to use the one without outlines, that one is 1.9 MB.
> > >>
> > >> This project has no budget. Just good karma. :-)
> > >>
> > >> Thanks very much,
> > >> Deb
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