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Converting PDF to Word

wislndixie
Registered: Oct 3 2006
Posts: 125

When I try to convert a simple pdf form back to a word document, the result if terrible. It doesn't keep any of the form intact. I tried running OCR and I get a message "unable to OCR, text has rendering" or something to that effect. I've used Scansofts PDFmaker and it works like a charm converting back to word. Just wondering what I'm doing wrong.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
dbaker
Expert
Registered: Feb 10 2006
Posts: 413
Hi --

You aren't necessarily doing anything wrong. Trying to OCR content that is already text results in the error that you have experienced.

You can try to export as RTF instead of Word, sometimes that produces a better outcome.

donna.

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