converting PDF files?

[nemaNIN]

Does anyone know of a way to convert PDF files into other documents, say Word files?

 

[prodigy]

How about just cut and pasting from the pdf file into a black document?

 

[nemaNIN]

well.. i ask this question in a buisness setting and i want to be able to take elements (text, graphics) of the document. im hoping to keep the text colums linked to make it easier to cut and paste and such.. what im really looking for is some program or client that will actually convert this to a word or possible quark file.

 

[prodigy]

Hmm, I did a quick search on Google, and I found this page from back in Dec. 99. I'm not sure how valid it is, but you can give it a try.


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Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:04:16 -0800
From: &quot;Gerald E. Boyd&quot; <gboyd@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: PDF Converter

At 10:59 AM 12/5/99 +0300, ALNAHDI, NAIF S wrote the following:

> Is there a program to convert PDF format to another editable
formats
>(DOC, HTML......etc) .

If the PDF is online then you can have it converted and sent via email
back to you using these email addresses:

pdf2html@adobe.com Convert an Adobe PDF to HTML.
URL in the body of the message
pdf2txt@adobe.com Convert an Adobe PDF to ASCII text.
URL in the body of the message

If the PDF is on your PC, then Ghostscript is best for viewing.
Welcome to the Home Page for Ghostscript, an interpreter for the
PostScript language and for PDF, and related software and documentation.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

You can find many PDF tools at the PDFzone.
http://www.pdfzone.com/

 

[Ulysses]

I think one of the purposes of the .pdf format is to prevent what you want to do, although that doesn't mean there are not workarounds. I've seen this question before, so you might want to search the forums for this subject. I seem to recall that the best suggestion was to use the Adobe products that are made to create and otherwise work with .pdf files.

 

[Workin']

Ulysses is right. The purpose of the Adobe Acrobat format is to allow easy cross-platform, application-independent viewing of documents, and to provide a way to copy-protect your written work if you distribute it, in other words, to prevent people from copying/pasting your work. In Acrobat (the program used to make .pdf files, not the reader) there are options to allow varying degrees of copy security.