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Subject:RE: PDF to Word or TXT From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 3 Nov 2004 12:12:35 -0500
For this sort of work, I've heard good things about OmniPage Pro 14 by
ScanSoft (haven't tried it yet myself). The company's Web site offers it for
$150, but there might be a better price elsewhere.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James MacDougall
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 11:56 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: PDF to Word or TXT
>
> Whirlers,
>
> I have several thousand pages of PDF text that I need to
> convert to a Word
> or text file. The hitch is that the text are all in columns,
> so a simple
> copy and paste won't do, and a page by page copy and paste
> with the table
> text select tool in Adobe is my vision of hell.
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