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Subject:Re: Convert PDF to Word? From:Terry Barron <tbarron -at- SYSTEMS -dot- DHL -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 9 Aug 1999 10:46:48 -0700
If you own Acrobat Exchange 3.0, use the Edit -> Copy File to
Clipboard command to copy the entire file as "RTF". It's ugly, but it
will bring the content into a word processing application.
Terry
Caroline Bolce-Gormley wrote:
>
> I know that theoretically this isn't possible, so I may have dreamed this
> ... but has anyone discovered a way to convert PDF files to Word? Or is my
> best approach to print the PDF pages, scan with OCR, and then read the OCR
> into Word?
>
> Caroline Bolce-Gormley
> Cbolcego -at- usa -dot- capgemini -dot- com
