I'm a novice and new to the use of Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.0. I need to be able to convert a PDF document into a manipulatable, editable MS windows document. I don't know if this AA 8.0 Pro can do that. I see that there are stand alone conversion programs out there to download but I don't know these companies. I have been told that Quark allows this. Can anyone help me with this problem?
Bruce Krell, DPM
footdoc352 [at] cox [dot] net
File > Save As > MS Word Document (*.doc) or Rich Text Format (*.rtf) or plain text (*.txt)If the PDF content is an image scanned from paper then OCR the PDF first.
(OCR results could also be copied to the clipboard and pasted into a MS Word file.)
If your PDF is a tagged PDF then, often, there is less clean up to do once the content is in MS Word.
Regardless, there will be some amount of clean up required in all cases.
If you go to *.rtf, do not be surprised if you see the content in rectangular boxes in MS Word.
Basically, a consequence of migrating from the file/content structure of PDF to that of MS Word.
Sometimes, if the content is not too long, it is faster to just print the PDF and then transcribe the content
into the authoring application of your choice (MS Word for you).
re: 3rd Party software - much good stuff available... But, not Harry Potter wands! Expect to be involved in some amount of clean up before you move on to tagging content with desired MS Word Styles and doing any desired layout work.
Be well...
Be well...