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PDF to Word Converter.

May 18, 2008 2:46AM PDT

Does anybody know of a free PDF to Word converter that will allow some manipulation of the converted text ?
Thanks.

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i'm looking for same
Jun 1, 2008 5:03AM PDT

This is still very-very relevant.
For me it even doesn't matter word or excel.
i just need pdf to add any data...
have tryed googling - downloaded couple trial verion, didn't suit -thats all...
pls any1 share utility you're using

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I tried
Jun 1, 2008 2:40PM PDT

copying from the PSF and pasted to a text document in Open Office and it can be done. The size and text need to be resized and spaced.

Or

You can try reading this.


Rick

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I use my OCR software...
Jun 1, 2008 3:12PM PDT

I haven't found any free PDF-to-Word (or Excel, OpenOffice, etc) utilities, but many OCR applications let you import a file and export to Word, which does nicely.

John

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As John mentioned
Jun 2, 2008 10:33AM PDT

You can use the scanner to scan the document to Word(I use Open Office).

I scan it as a rtf file and it scans nicely.


Rick

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Thanks everyone
Jun 3, 2008 4:23AM PDT

Thanks to all who posted suggestions.
I never even thought of scanning and then converting, that should do the trick...

Thanks again all............................

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Not necesarily even scanning...
Jun 3, 2008 10:07AM PDT

Many OCR applications let you import a file and have it converted to a Word document so you don't have to print it if it's already in digital form. That is, in essence, what the software is doing anyway...initially scans as a JPG into the temp directory and then converts to Word. Just less paper waste.

John

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PDF to Word Converter
Feb 26, 2009 11:33AM PST

I also have tried lots of freebiees, however I did not get what I want. Finally I find and I went some free trial. One of them called AXPDF convesion can produce good result and I download it from here :
http://www.autodwg.com/pdf2word.htm.

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download
Mar 23, 2009 8:46PM PDT
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Trials are free, too
Nov 2, 2009 7:15AM PST