Re: PDF to Word

Subject: Re: PDF to Word
From: "Lin Sims" <linda -dot- sims -at- verizon -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:39:09 -0500

Acrobat 5 (*not* the Acrobat Reader) can convert a PDF file to RTF so
long as the file hasn't been security protected in some way.

On 21 Feb 2002 at 12:17, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:

> On Thu 21 Feb, Uma_Nakkeeran bloviated thus:
>
> > Is there any utility/ tool available for converting PDF to Word?
>
> Not as far as I know. You may be able to copy out the text and
> graphics if the PDF author has allowed it, but you will lose text
> formatting and the images may not be high quality.
>
> There is a tool to extract the text from postscript files (the basis
> of PDF) called ps2pdf. Not sure if it's available for Windows but it
> comes with most Linux distributions.
Lin Sims

Of course I'm willing to take 'No' for an answer, so long as 'No' was the
answer I was looking for.


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References:
PDF to Word: From: Uma_Nakkeeran
Re: PDF to Word: From: Rev Simon Rumble

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