RE: Looking for a miracle

[Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Have you tried running a printed PDF through a scanner with OCR software? That probably would require a lot of editing afterward, but maybe it would capture some of the PDF content directly.


> 
> Hello All -
> 
> After a hard drive crash I learned that the only remaining
> copy of a 
> manual I'm working on is in PDF.  The source is in
> Word.  I have Adobe 
> 8.0 loaded and have done a "save as" to get the
> manual to open in Word 
> but it appears that the resulting Word file is limited to
> an image of 
> the PDF content.
> 
> Is there any way that the PDF can be converted to a
> straight editable 
> Word document?
> 
> Elizabeth
> 
> P.S.  No mail please about the hard drive crash, backing
> up, etc.  
> That's been handled.
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