[SATLUG] PDF to M/S Word Conversion

[M K Ramadoss]

I went and looked up some reviews of the two programs and it appears that
ABBYY may be a little bit better  in that it handles formatting better. Only
by using the trial version personally one can determine which will be a
better fit for the kind of work one has on hand. By the way, I have not used
either of them. However, I was impressed by the ABBYY's Finereader OCR. My
0.02.

mkr

On 11/30/06, Dennis Myhand <dmyhand at cox-internet.com> wrote:
>
> M K Ramadoss wrote:
> > You should look into ABBYY Transformer program which converts pdf files
> to
> > word and several other formats. You may be able to download a try and
> buy
> > trial version and try the program to see if it meets the needs. The
> program
> > is inexpensive; one time cost of  $99.00.
> >
> > Keep all of us posted of the progress in the matter.
> >
> > mkr
> >
> > On 11/17/06, Samuel Leon <leon36 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Looking for some info here.  My girlfriend has a job helping her
> college
> >> professor on the side.  I don't have all the details but from what I
> >> gather her professor is trying to get a report of his published but the
> >> publisher wants the report in ms word format and it is currently in pdf
> >> format.
> >>
> >> There are several 100+ page reports that my girlfriend is having to
> >> manually copy and paste from Adobe into Word.  Problem is that when
> >> pasted into Word the format comes out all screwy and some letters and
> >> words appear as symbols.  So to be accurate she is pasting 1 paragraph
> >> at a time and then going back and proof reading it to make sure the
> >> formating is right and that all the words are there.  Very time
> >> consuming as you can imagine.
> >>
> >> I know there has to be a program out there can properly convert all
> >> this, so whats it called??? :-D
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Sam
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> PDF2Word converter  $39.95
>
> http://www.verypdf.com/pdf2word/index.html
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