Convert scanned pdf doc to editable Word

Hi gyy,

If you don’t have the original file from which a PDF was created, you can save the PDF as a Word document that you can then edit in Word.

Click Export in the Tasks toolbar, and then choose Word Document.
Click Settings to set conversion options.

Note: When you save a PDF to Word format, the resulting file isn’t equivalent to a file created in Word; some coding information may be lost.

Your response does not answer my question - I actually mentioned in my orig question that when the orig PDF doc is converted to Word, it only comes as an image. Can you pls advise further?

Review these Acrobat articles:

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[url=http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7qtsuspects.php]http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7qtsuspects.php[/url]

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To convert a pdf image document to a searchable image or to text and graphics, do the following:

1. With the scanned document open, select Document>Recognize Text Using OCR>Start.Acrobat will present you with the Recognize Text dialog box.

2. Choose the radio button corresponding to the pages you want converted to a searchable image.
Most of the time, you will probably choose All pages.

3. Click the Edit button.
Acrobat will present you with the Recognize Text Settings dialog box, on the next page.

4. In the PDF Output Style popup menu, select the type of conversion you want Acrobat to perform. Your options are:

• Searchable Image (Exact) - Acrobat creates a searchable image using a very accurate algorithm to convert the text.

• Searchable Image (Compact) - Acrobat creates a searchable image, but uses a faster and slightly less-accurate ocr method.

• Formatted Text & Graphics - Acrobat replaces each full-page image with real text and line art, doing its best to match the original font.5. Select a language to be used in the ocr conversion.
Acrobat 7 provides a list of a dozen or so languages from which you may choose.

6. Pick a resolution to which Acrobat can reduce the image when doing the ocr.
When Acrobat performs ocr, it reduces the resolution of the image to speed up the processing. The lower the downsampled resolution, the faster the processing, but the less-accurate will be the character recognition. I’d leave this at 600 dpi, myself.

6. Click the OK button to return to the Recognize Text dialog box.

7. Click the OK button to start the ocr process.

Acrobat will process the bitmapped pages.
If you chose to make a searchable image, the resulting pdf pages will look the same as they did before, but now all of the text tools will work on the apparently bitmapped text.

You can search the text, select it with the Select tool, and copy the selection. Of course, what the text tools are really operating on is the underlying text layer.
If you chose to convert the document to text and graphics, you will be looking at a document with real text and line art.

The error message is the key.
Find out what caused it. Then you can fix it.

I upgraded to Acrobat 9 Pro Extended. However, the .pdf to .doc/.rtf is still quite terrible under Acrobat --at least for me. I create very good pdf documents from groff, but many publishers now require .doc submissions. Acrobat (to be fair, as well as just about every other tool I've tried -- but those aren't as expensive :)!) do not do a good job at all. Equations (simple Greek fonts?) and placement and fonts are not at all well converted. A sample example is
http://ingber.com/smni06_ppi.pdf .

Lester

I started with a scanned .pdf file which looked to me like an image.. Then I selected Recognize Text Using OCR. The result was a document with one or more characters surrounded by a red box. I have no Idea what that means. I then needed to copy the page or document to a Word for Mac 2004 or 2008 document in order to edit and search it. I tried to use Select All but, only a portion of the document was selected. There were a series of areas each surrounded by a light blue box. When I chose i boxed area and used Select all, only the text within the box was selected. But, I could not select the entire page of the document. When I try to select any portion of the document, I get the standard vertical cursor but I cannot use it to drag and select.

My questions are:

1) What do the red outline boxes surrounding characters mean?

2) How do i select all so I can then transfer the text to a word document?

Thank you,

Tom Casselman
cassco [at] c-fourth [dot] com

instead of exporting the OCR'd pdf to Word, experiment with this: convert the pdf to TIFF. open TIFF in MS Office Document Imaging (an app that comes with MS office); on tools menu apply "send text to MS Word"

Hi. I'm using Acrobat 6. Like the folks posting before, I'm trying to convert a scanned PDF document into editable Word or RTF.

The Acrobat version I'm running doesn't seem to offer the options suggested above by "pddesigner", ie. I see no option along the lines of:

Document>Recognize Text Using OCR>StartInstead, under Documents, I see Paper Capture.

Suggestions?

Thanks.

gsmith60,
Use "Paper Capture"; this provides OCR.
Note, that with Acrobat 6, there is a 50 page limit.
You may have to process your PDF in increments.

Be well...

You can try to use this [url=http://www.newocr.com/]online OCR[/url] service. It's works good for scanned images with resolution > 150 dpi.

you can try the Tweak PDF to Word Converter 3.0, it is a little program to convert PDF to editable Word for easier editing. The converter enjoys an exact conversion with the output Word retaining intact of all the original features of the PDF, including layout, image positioning, font, graphics, hyperlinks, etc. Encrypted PDF files can be converted to Word, too. here the link:http://www.tweakpdf.com/pdf-to-word.php

Try to use OCR Terminal, which is an online OCR service that converts scanned images into searchable text. Register an account and you can convert 20 pages for free every month.
http://www.ocrterminal.com/
And for the normal PDF, if you want to convert it to Word or Text, try to use AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter, which is totally free. The function is superb, have a try!
http://www.anypdftools.com/pdf-to-word.php#201

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Thanks for links.

I am using Adobe Pro 8 and have tried to change a large format pdf into a jpeg. But I get an error that says the file is too wide to export. Does any one have a solution.

[url=www.openoffice.org/]OpenOffice.org[/url] has a plug in that allows the import of a PDF into an OpenOffice.org document.

the answer is in this thread, see post of 2009-01-10 03:52:34: instead of exporting the OCR'd pdf to Word, experiment with this: convert the pdf to TIFF. open TIFF in MS Office Document Imaging (an app that comes with MS office); on tools menu apply "send text to MS Word"

Thanks!!!

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