Importing PDF as image

[Ed]

PDF is essentially an image file (or something closer to image than text.),
is it not? Is there a way to import a PDF file into Word (and ultimately
automatically using VBA).

I have a PDF >> Word converter which does a sort-of OCR scan, but that's not
what I want. It is perfectly okay if the text is an image, and not real
(editable) text.

Thanks,

Ed

 

[Jezebel]

You can simply embed the PDF as an object -- it works the same as for other
image file format. But be aware that you can end up with a *huge* Word file.
Test it before you go very far -- you can easily end up with a file that's
too large to email.

 

[Graham Mayor]

But if you want the object to be viewable as an image, you have to use
Acrobat 7 reader and even then objects cannot span pages, so you will only
see the first page? Another possibility is to convert the PDF to image (or
images) using e.g. SnagIt 8 (www.techsmith.com) which has a 'printer driver'
that will output any application to virtually any graphics format. You can
them import the images just like any other. There is a demo of SnagIt that
you can try.

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