Convert PDF back to original ( editable ) document

[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

 

[John Corliss]

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

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.

 

[John Corliss]

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

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.

 

[Colin]

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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Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls. No adware, cdware, commercial software,
crippleware, demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware, spyware,
time-limited software, trialware, viruses or warez please.

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

 

[John Corliss]

(clipped)too many backups isn't enough.....

Ainiduhtroot.

 

[Richard Steinfeld]

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

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

 

[GreenieLeBrun]

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).