Acrobat PDF to Word?

[Martha W. Stone]

We have a form that needs to be filled out and it's on the internet as a PDF
file. We only have the free version...is it possible to save the PDF as a
Word document or otherwise type in the form? It's several pages and we
don't want to recreate it or use the typewriter!!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the maker of the form intended it to be filled out, you should be able to
do so in Acrobat Reader.

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[Rob Schneider]

We have a form that needs to be filled out and it's on the internet as a PDF
file. We only have the free version...is it possible to save the PDF as a
Word document or otherwise type in the form? It's several pages and we
don't want to recreate it or use the typewriter!!

Sorry, no. Easiest way will be to use pen or pencil on paper copy.
Next easiest way is typewriter (and I like you remember what they are).
Up to you, but probably a waste of time to re-create.

If the person owning the form wanted to make it easier for you, they
would have done it another way. At least you have easy access to the
form (in the "old" days, that was a problem).

 

[Alex]

Hi Martha

There is another way to solve the problem.

In Acrobat Reader, active the graphic select tool and
copy a page.

Then open a blank page in Word and set the margins so
they reflect the acrobat document.

Then goto the edit menu and click paste special, when the
dialog box appears choose picture.

Now resize and crop the picture so that when it's printed
it looks exactly like the original.

Note if using Word 97 set the picture layout to inline
with text, if using 2000, XP or 2003 use either inline
with text or behind text.

OK so far we have a copy of the orignial as a picture in
a word file so how do you insert the text, simple

Goto the insert menu and select text box. Draw a text
box over one of the fields within the document and set
the fill colour to NONE, line attributes to NONE and the
layout attributes to in front of text

Now type and there you have it. repeat the textbox trick
for each field and repeat the whole trick for every other
page.

The other alternatives are expensive but I'll list them
anyway.

1. Buy adobe acrobat writer and either save the pdf as a
rtf file or make it interactive yourself

2. Buy an OCR package such as omnipage that will convert
pdf file into word files just as if the pdf was a scanned
image.

Hope all this helps

Alex