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Converting PDF to Word
Our old, cheap scanner used to have a "rtf" button that saved the scan as a
Rich Text Format document that could be edited in Word, presumably using some OCR software embedded with the scanner software. Our new Ricoh scanner apparently does not have such software, and an attempt to save a PDF from Adobe Professional as a .doc document was successful, but brought it in as a frame which was not editable. Does anyone know how I can do this conversion to an editable Word doc? Thank you. Sprinks |
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Converting PDF to Word
You can try a copy and paste but you'll probably lose the formatting. Or you
can purchase a program like ScanSoft's PDF Converter. I have it and it's not too bad. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Sprinks" wrote in message ... Our old, cheap scanner used to have a "rtf" button that saved the scan as a Rich Text Format document that could be edited in Word, presumably using some OCR software embedded with the scanner software. Our new Ricoh scanner apparently does not have such software, and an attempt to save a PDF from Adobe Professional as a .doc document was successful, but brought it in as a frame which was not editable. Does anyone know how I can do this conversion to an editable Word doc? Thank you. Sprinks |
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Converting PDF to Word
Copy/paste won't work because the PDFs generated by scanners are pure
graphics and the pages are just pictures. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message .. . You can try a copy and paste but you'll probably lose the formatting. Or you can purchase a program like ScanSoft's PDF Converter. I have it and it's not too bad. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Sprinks" wrote in message ... Our old, cheap scanner used to have a "rtf" button that saved the scan as a Rich Text Format document that could be edited in Word, presumably using some OCR software embedded with the scanner software. Our new Ricoh scanner apparently does not have such software, and an attempt to save a PDF from Adobe Professional as a .doc document was successful, but brought it in as a frame which was not editable. Does anyone know how I can do this conversion to an editable Word doc? Thank you. Sprinks |
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Converting PDF to Word
I've had some success with copy and paste of items but since I didn't create
those .pdf files, I don't know what settings were used when they were converted -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Copy/paste won't work because the PDFs generated by scanners are pure graphics and the pages are just pictures. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message .. . You can try a copy and paste but you'll probably lose the formatting. Or you can purchase a program like ScanSoft's PDF Converter. I have it and it's not too bad. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Sprinks" wrote in message ... Our old, cheap scanner used to have a "rtf" button that saved the scan as a Rich Text Format document that could be edited in Word, presumably using some OCR software embedded with the scanner software. Our new Ricoh scanner apparently does not have such software, and an attempt to save a PDF from Adobe Professional as a .doc document was successful, but brought it in as a frame which was not editable. Does anyone know how I can do this conversion to an editable Word doc? Thank you. Sprinks |
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Converting PDF to Word
In a "real" PDF created from a document, the text is text, but, as I say,
most scanners that claim to be able to scan to PDF just create graphic files. I found that quite disappointing. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message .. . I've had some success with copy and paste of items but since I didn't create those .pdf files, I don't know what settings were used when they were converted -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Copy/paste won't work because the PDFs generated by scanners are pure graphics and the pages are just pictures. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message .. . You can try a copy and paste but you'll probably lose the formatting. Or you can purchase a program like ScanSoft's PDF Converter. I have it and it's not too bad. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Sprinks" wrote in message ... Our old, cheap scanner used to have a "rtf" button that saved the scan as a Rich Text Format document that could be edited in Word, presumably using some OCR software embedded with the scanner software. Our new Ricoh scanner apparently does not have such software, and an attempt to save a PDF from Adobe Professional as a .doc document was successful, but brought it in as a frame which was not editable. Does anyone know how I can do this conversion to an editable Word doc? Thank you. Sprinks |
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