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Editing .doc file created from .pdf

neardy763
Registered: Jul 24 2007
Posts: 2

I Saved As a PDF to a Word doc. but cannot edit. Doc saved an picture or JPEG. Can only Cut and paste image.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 7.0.0, Windows
tplumer
Expert
Registered: Dec 1 2005
Posts: 122
It may be that the file the PDF came from was a JPEG or some type of scan, so the PDF file is really just a picture file. However, you can have Acrobat convert such files with the OCR capability it has. Under the Document menu, select OCR Text Recognition> Recognize Text using OCR. Use the defaults and then try saving the document as a Word file.

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