Convert PDF back to original ( editable ) document

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Colin

Greetings all,
any suggestions on freeware that is capable of converting from a PDF
document ( includes diagrams I believe back to an editable. updateable form?

Colleagues only have the PDF format left, with all the inputs having become
corrupted.. and backups no where to be seen..
Tia

Colin
 
Colin said:
Greetings all,
any suggestions on freeware that is capable of converting from a PDF
document ( includes diagrams I believe back to an editable. updateable form?

Colleagues only have the PDF format left, with all the inputs having become
corrupted.. and backups no where to be seen..
Tia
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Fraid I know of no such software. However, in Acrobat Reader you can
usually select all the text and copy that to a word processor, then do
the same to the illustrations. If your .pdf file is large, this will be
a real PITA though.
 
Colin said:
Greetings all,
any suggestions on freeware that is capable of converting from a PDF
document ( includes diagrams I believe back to an editable. updateable form?

Colleagues only have the PDF format left, with all the inputs having become
corrupted.. and backups no where to be seen..
Tia
Click to expand...

Fraid I know of no such freeware. However, in Acrobat Reader you can
usually select all the text and copy that to a word processor, then do
the same to the illustrations. If your .pdf file is large, this will be
a real PITA though.
 
John Corliss said:
Fraid I know of no such freeware. However, in Acrobat Reader you can
usually select all the text and copy that to a word processor, then do
the same to the illustrations. If your .pdf file is large, this will be
a real PITA though.


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I had a horrible feeling this might be the case, oh well, perhaps I can use
it as a teaching opportunity for the case of too many backups isn't
enough.....

Thanks Colin
 
Colin said:
I had a horrible feeling this might be the case, oh well, perhaps I can use
it as a teaching opportunity for the case of too many backups isn't
enough.....

Thanks Colin
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I've worked on .pdf documents just enough to remember one thing: the
files are password-protected to prevent the user from being able to get
at the raw material.

In a work group, this rigidity has its value -- it prevents every
tom/dick/harriet from going in and screwing up a shared document.

It can be a pain, too: tonight I wanted to save only two pages from a
manual to disk. No dice: you copy the entire file or you copy nothing.
OK. So, I just printed those two pages.

Hmmmm.
Isn't there a freeware program that can redirect printer output into an
image file? (Heh, heh, heh)

????????????????


Richard
 
Adobe created a plug-in for Acrobat 5 called Adobe Makeaccessable (see:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1161

To quote from Adobes site:-

Characteristics of a tagged PDF:
- Page content is contained in a logical read order
- Word boundaries explicitly identified
- Font encodings mapped to standard font encoding
- Includes a structure tree comprised of a standard set of tags

Benefits of a tagged PDF:
- Can be read by a screen reader for greater accessibility
- Document reflow
- Can be saved as Rich Text Format (RTF).
 
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