[Dawn Crosier, Word MVP]

PDF stands for Portable Document Format. The point was to be able to
electronically send documents to others who may or may not have the original
software (Word / WordPerfect / Lotus / etc.) This way anyone with the free
reader can read the document. Changes should be requested of the originator.
PDF documents are also a method for storing paper documents electronically.
Most scanners now create PDF files for use. Sometimes the documents are
OCR'd and sometimes they are not.

--
Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
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"Nahshon Evren" doctornash@polyclinic . ch wrote in message
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Thanks for the information -I always thought the point of pdf
was to simply compress a file - am I wrong ?



"Graham Mayor" a écrit dans le message de
news:
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The whole point of PDF is to create a fixed format graphical
representation
of the original document. It is not intended to be deconstructed. You can
do
that but not without some personal input.

The best tool I have found for the job is Abbyy Finereader's OCR
software,
but even that will not give you a true copy of the original document
without
putting in some work of your own.

On the other hand a Word document opened on a different PC with different
fonts and printer driver will not look the same either - which is where
PDF
came in in the first place.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Nahshon Evren wrote:
OK so there's no 'ultimate' soft to get the thing perfect -
the options are between a mess and a rat's nest ?



N

"Jezebel" a écrit dans le message de news:
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The issue is not so much the application for converting PDF to Word,
but the application from which the PDF was created in the first
place. Some document formats just don't convert very well to Word.

If you convert a Word document to PDF than back, you generally get
something pretty close to the original; but if the original was
created by something that uses a very different object model (like
PageMaker, Publisher, Corel, etc), then the resulting Word document
will likely be a pig's breakfast, whatever you use for the
conversion.





"Nahshon Evren" doctornash@polyclinic . ch wrote in message
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Hi

I've been trying several .pdf to Word converters,
none seem good enough for recuperating original
formats especially when reuperating tables and figures

Does anyone have any good idea about which pdf to Word
converter is the most effective for preserving formats (any
including scientific tables and graphs?!)

Many many many -

Thanks

Nash