Gathering information into Word from Tiff / PDF files

[Paul]

Hi,
I need to create a Word document with information from non-
Word documents. For example I could have a 120 page tiff
file that needs to be included within the document, but I
want this file to inserted page by page not as an object.
I have the same sort of issue with a multi page PDF that
needs to be inserted with each page in the PDF being a
page in the Word document. Anybody know a way to do this
sort of thing quickly and efficiently? One method I though
about was if a 'Print to Word' option is available, like
PDF printers.
My current Word version is 2000 but if newer versions are
better at this let me know.

Thanks,
Paul.

 

[Jezebel]

With the PDF, it can't be done, and conceptually it's wrong. PDF is an
output format. The idea is you create the document using whatever document
application you want -- like Word, then create the PDF. It just doesn't work
the other way round.

Not sure what you mean by a '120 page tiff file' -- tiff is a file format
for single graphics.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Paul,

Multipage TIFFs aren't directly supported in Word.
You can open them in Word 2002 or 2003 in MS Office
Document imaging and use the OCR tool there to turn
each page into text, or insert the separate pages as
graphics (an object in Word cannot exceed one page).

You may be able to Print a PDF to a TIFF file (there
are available drivers to do that) as a similar option.

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Hi,
I need to create a Word document with information from non-
Word documents. For example I could have a 120 page tiff
file that needs to be included within the document, but I
want this file to inserted page by page not as an object.
I have the same sort of issue with a multi page PDF that
needs to be inserted with each page in the PDF being a
page in the Word document. Anybody know a way to do this
sort of thing quickly and efficiently? One method I though
about was if a 'Print to Word' option is available, like
PDF printers.
My current Word version is 2000 but if newer versions are
better at this let me know.

Thanks,
Paul>>

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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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