Converting PDF to Word

[Guest]

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

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

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.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

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]

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

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

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]

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

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]

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

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

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]

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

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]




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