OT PDF converter

[RobertMacy]

had trouble with EVERY offline converter, but never had trouble with
http://freemypdf.com/

blork!

I meant
<http://www.pdfonline.com/pdf-to-word-converter/>

 

[philo]

<snip>


yep I made an assumption

OTOH: if someone asks me whats one plus one...

I am going to make the assumption they are using base 10

What base is your "10" in?

[Don't reply - just joshing (-:!]

LOL!!!

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

On 08/03/2013 09:17 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Original question: Little off topic but trying to find a decent and free
PDF to word converter for 2-4 documents. Any suggestions are
welcomed, TIA


In


<snip>


yep I made an assumption

OTOH: if someone asks me whats one plus one...

I am going to make the assumption they are using base 10

What base is your "10" in?

[Don't reply - just joshing (-:!]

LOL!!!

"There are 10 types of people - those who understand binary, and those
who don't ..."

 

[Flash]

John, I did get them converter or I should say re-typed to end up with
what I want (almost). My old printer software did come with OCR and
after I got use to it and made the few errors, I now miss it. My old
printer/software was very easy to use and the wife could use it with
very little help. This new printer takes more computer savy than what my
wife has so I end up helping her. Such is progress.........

I found Paul's replay to be rude actually...and yours as well.

Paul is rarely rude - less so than I, I think.

Paul normally gives excellent advice but the OP specifically said he
wanted to convert a PDF document to Word.

He said /nothing/ about it being a scanned fax.
Since fax machines are rarely used anymore, it did not seem reasonable
to make the assumption that that's what the OP had in mind.
For that, obviously one would need OCR software.

OK, Paul was a little lazy in using "fax" to mean "scanner". I very much
doubt the example he quoted above (data sheet from Linear Technologies)
was actually made on a fax machine.The fact remains that a fair proportion - I'd say 5 to 10 per cent, but
it will vary a lot by context - of the PDFs around _are_ just scanned
images (sometimes in colour, so obviously _not_ done on a fax machine).
Your "just cut and paste" [you meant copy and paste (-:] was probably
meant to be helpful; Paul's tendency to give complete replies meant he
couldn't let the OP think that that would work in all circumstances.

"Flash", if you're still with us: have you managed to get your "2-4
documents" into Word? If so, what did you use? (What were/are they?)

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

John, I did get them converter or I should say re-typed to end up with
what I want (almost). My old printer software did come with OCR and
after I got use to it and made the few errors, I now miss it. My old
printer/software was very easy to use and the wife could use it with
very little help. This new printer takes more computer savy than what
my wife has so I end up helping her. Such is progress.........

[]
Assuming you're still using the same computer, and haven't _un_installed
the software that came with your original scanner, then you may still be
able to use it (with the new one - sounds like you've bought a new one).

Does the old OCR software have a name? (Omnipage, Abbyy Finereader,
Paperport, etc.) If you tell us, we may be able to tell you where to
tell it to use the new scanner (or rather scanner driver).

When you say the new "printer" (I take it you've got another all-in-one)
is too complicated, do you mean the printing side, or the scanning side?
I would _hope_ that the printing side should be reasonably
straightforward (it might have added a popup that tells you how much ink
is left, but that's all).

The _scanning_ side probably does more than you want: I'm guessing you
put in the CD and let it rip. This usually installs lots of unnecessary
software, which also takes over lots of things you were perfectly happy
with. You really just want the (printer driver and the) scanner driver,
which you can use with all the software you were already used to:
sometimes this is referred to as the TWAIN driver.

 

[Ken Springer]

On 08/03/2013 09:17 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Original question: Little off topic but trying to find a decent and free
PDF to word converter for 2-4 documents. Any suggestions are
welcomed, TIA


In


<snip>


yep I made an assumption

OTOH: if someone asks me whats one plus one...

I am going to make the assumption they are using base 10

What base is your "10" in?

[Don't reply - just joshing (-:!]

LOL!!!

"There are 10 types of people - those who understand binary, and those
who don't ..."

LMAO!!


--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.8.4
Firefox 22.0
Thunderbird 17.0.7
LibreOffice 4.0.4.2

 

[Flash]

John, I did get them converter or I should say re-typed to end up with
what I want (almost). My old printer software did come with OCR and
after I got use to it and made the few errors, I now miss it. My old
printer/software was very easy to use and the wife could use it with
very little help. This new printer takes more computer savy than what
my wife has so I end up helping her. Such is progress.........

[]
Assuming you're still using the same computer, and haven't _un_installed
the software that came with your original scanner, then you may still be
able to use it (with the new one - sounds like you've bought a new one).

Does the old OCR software have a name? (Omnipage, Abbyy Finereader,
Paperport, etc.) If you tell us, we may be able to tell you where to
tell it to use the new scanner (or rather scanner driver).

When you say the new "printer" (I take it you've got another all-in-one)
is too complicated, do you mean the printing side, or the scanning side?
I would _hope_ that the printing side should be reasonably
straightforward (it might have added a popup that tells you how much ink
is left, but that's all).

The _scanning_ side probably does more than you want: I'm guessing you
put in the CD and let it rip. This usually installs lots of unnecessary
software, which also takes over lots of things you were perfectly happy
with. You really just want the (printer driver and the) scanner driver,
which you can use with all the software you were already used to:
sometimes this is referred to as the TWAIN driver.

John, apparently when I installed the new printer it deleted the
scanning elements of the old computer. I do have the old print program
so that is a positive. When I get over the current crisis, I will try to
dig out the old CD and figure out how to install just the scanner
portion. Thanks for some good ideas and info.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: []

Assuming you're still using the same computer, and haven't
_un_installed the software that came with your original scanner, then
you may still be able to use it (with the new one - sounds like
you've bought a new one).

[]
John, apparently when I installed the new printer it deleted the
scanning elements of the old computer. I do have the old print program
so that is a positive. When I get over the current crisis, I will try
to dig out the old CD and figure out how to install just the scanner
portion. Thanks for some good ideas and info.

I'd be surprised, unless it's the same make. Can you remember what the
old scanning software was called? (Or, what are the make and model of
your old [and new] all-in-ones, and we may be able to figure out what
came with them?)