PDF to Word

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

The idea behind PDF is have something universal to view a document. Not
everyone (Mac or PC has Office-word or. And with word you can only have
one copy of office on any one computer (Desktop/Laptop). Adobe Reader is
is free and as many copies for each computer can be downloaded and
installed as is necessary.

But it sole purpose is viewing or printing from viewed documents or fill
out forms. Even Adobe people say Acrobat is not a text Editor. You
supposed fix all the spelling errors. and do all the formatting in your
word processor then create the PDF as the end product.

Now if MS could come up with a Plugin or extension for Web Browsers
where they could read Word or Excel documents directly and be able to
edit and change them. Acrobat wouldn't be around.

But they have!

You can read and edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint and soon OneNote documents
for free on line in your web browser right now. In a move of blazing
stupidity, Microsoft did not put this service under the Microsoft
domain. Instead, they put it under the Live domain so no one would find
it or know that it's a version of Microsoft Office. Instead of calling
it Microsoft Office something-or-other they called it Skydrive, but it
should have been called Office Skydrive or something like that instead,
so it's not surprising you haven't heard about it.

There's nothing to install. You use the Skydrive version of Microsoft
Office from any computer - Mac, PC, or even LINUX - in your FireFox,
Safari or IE web browser (PC only). Your Office files are accessible
from any computer with an internet connection, and you can print & save
them locally, too. This link gives instructions on how to get SkyDrive.
Then you can brag to your friends that you are doing "cloud computing."
You can even allow others to access your online documents.
http://www.agentjim.com/MVP/PowerPoint/PowerPointForFree.html

-Jim

 

[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Thanks I already have a Live ID. So went to site Bookmarked. I put a
File in the Public Folder. a Desk Calendar Bob Greenblat help me create.
I had to re work it because the way the month of February fell this year
worked last year just fine. For now through at least 2020 it seems to
work. But for the year 2009 it show Feb 29 (but it only had 28 Days).

Without the corrections I made, Feb October and December broke. Maybe
some one interested can figure out why it broke. I put in the Public
section.

I wouldn't exactly put items that had private info on the site. They
here wile back had a major issue with the clod system.

 

[Randy Singer (MacAttorney)]

I am trying to convert a PDF file to Word for Mac.

There are a number of third party applications that can do this with
varying degrees of success.

The only *really effective* program that will do this (and the only
program, period, that will work if the PDF is of a graphic image of a
text page) is:

OmniPage Pro/Macintosh (srp $500)
http://WWW.NUANCE.COM/imaging/omnipage/omnipage-macintosh.asp

OmniPage Pro is expensive, but here is a place to get it direct for
only $99:

<http://shop.nuance.com/store/nuanceus/pd/productID.111905000/OfferID.
1177248709?
ClickID=ce7qv4axzwpsnkls7aqixllkxsqzaxxvikq&resid=lngSwwoBAkgAAE0or50AAAAV&rests=1249365496052>

or

http://is.gd/21Hwx

It is the only product that can recognize complex formatting in a PDF
and preserve it. Also, being an OCR program, it can turn a graphic
image back into text (and still preserve the formatting).

There are other products that will convert a PDF into Word's ".doc"
format, but they will all be somewhat less effective.

PDF2Office (Personal/Pro $59/$129)
http://www.recosoft.com/company/press/news12052003.htm
http://www.recosoft.com/products/pdf2office/index.htm

TextLightning $35
http://www.metaobject.com/Products/

DeskunPDF $70
http://www.docudesk.com/deskUNPDF-PDF-Converter-for-mac.shtml

PDF2RTF service (free)
http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/services.html

Free PDF converters online a:t
http://www.freepdfconvert.com
http://www.pdftoword.com

___________________________________________
Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
___________________________________________

 

[David Smith]

There are a number of third party applications that can do this with
varying degrees of success.

The only *really effective* program that will do this (and the only
program, period, that will work if thePDFis of a graphic image of a
text page) is:

OmniPage Pro/Macintosh (srp $500)http://WWW.NUANCE.COM/imaging/omnipage/omnipage-macintosh.asp

OmniPage Pro is expensive, but here is a place to get it direct for
only $99:

<http://shop.nuance.com/store/nuanceus/pd/productID.111905000/OfferID.
1177248709?
ClickID=ce7qv4axzwpsnkls7aqixllkxsqzaxxvikq&resid=lngSwwoBAkgAAE0or50AAAAV&­rests=1249365496052>

or

http://is.gd/21Hwx

It is the only product that can recognize complex formatting in aPDF
and preserve it.  Also, being an OCR program, it can turn a graphic
image back into text (and still preserve the formatting).

There are other products that will convert aPDFintoWord's".doc"
format, but they will all be somewhat less effective.

PDF2Office (Personal/Pro $59/$129)http://www.recosoft.com/company/pre...ww.recosoft.com/products/pdf2office/index.htm

TextLightning $35http://www.metaobject.com/Products/

DeskunPDF  $70http://www.docudesk.com/deskUNPDF-PDF-Converter-for-mac.shtml

PDF2RTF service (free)http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/services.html

FreePDFconverters online a:thttp://www.freepdfconvert.comhttp://www.pdftoword.com

___________________________________________
Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenancehttp://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
___________________________________________

Here I will introduce another free PDF to Word Converter, which is
free in Feb,2010. The program cost $29.95 before. I have got one and
the converison quality is superb. It supports bacth,partial adn
encrypted PDF conversion.
http://www.anypdftools.com/pdf-to-word.html#201

 

[John McGhie]

{Sigh...} More Spam. And this guy is REALLY brain-dead....

" Operating Systems
OS: Windows 2003/XP/Vista/7 32bit"

Idiot!

Here I will introduce another free PDF to Word Converter,

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