How to turn a .PDF article into a .DOC?

[drdoug26]

Yet another newbie question! (hope this is the right place for this)

I've got a series of medical papers in .PDF format. I simply hate using Adobe Acrobat (In using full version 5.0).

I would love to get these into .doc format so i could use them in MS Word.

Is there a way to get them into .doc format, or any format other than .pdf!

Thanks

Doug

 

[NookieN]

There are plenty of utilities to convert PDF to HTML (and probably some for PDF to DOC). Adobe has one on their website (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_simple_form.html), so you could just throw your docs up on a server somewhere.

Personally, I would much prefer viewing a PDF over a DOC.

 

[CrashOveride]

ya i agree with what Nookie said... and for the right section its not the worste place to put this but "Other Software" might be better

 

[Daemonfly]

If the original files were scanned in as images, you can't directly convert to .DOC. You'd have to probably print it out, then scan it back in using OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

 

[CrashOveride]

If the original files were scanned in as images, you can't directly convert to .DOC. You'd have to probably print it out, then scan it back in using OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

well it does allow you to select text so i think it can see the text and Nookie said there are ones t covert to HTML... and thats really just a copy past job away, well almost... you wouldnt need to do any crazy scannings...

 

[NookieN]

He's saying you might come across a PDF where the creator literally scanned a page and put the bitmap into a PDF. Unfortunately, there really is no good way to just get the text out of such documents. This isn't a shortcoming of PDF though, it's a problem with the people who make PDFs.

 

[CrashOveride]

He's saying you might come across a PDF where the creator literally scanned a page and put the bitmap into a PDF. Unfortunately, there really is no good way to just get the text out of such documents. This isn't a shortcoming of PDF though, it's a problem with the people who make PDFs.

oh... lol didnt know youc ould do that my bad