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Converting pdf back to MS Word?

meglome · 2006-12-19 11:27:08

We have a load of pdf files that our customer has lost the original Word files for. What's the best way to convert these back to Word? I know there are utilities that do it but I've never used any of them.

19-12-2006 11:27am

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We have a load of pdf files that our customer has lost the original Word files for. What's the best way to convert these back to Word?

I know there are utilities that do it but I've never used any of them.

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#2 19-12-2006 7:52pm

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depends on what security they applied when they generated the pdf's

try selecting and copying the text

next step is on a machine with office 2003 or similar print the document to the microsoft document imaging printer thingy - this will generate *.mdi documents that you can ocr with microsoft documant imaging, you can export the text back into word and a bit of the time it will even hold some formatting

if they were scanned in then it's getting messy and you might need some heavy duty OCR

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