Help? Convert PDF to FrameMaker

Subject: Help? Convert PDF to FrameMaker
From: John Bartol <johnbartol -at- shaw -dot- ca>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:31:06 -0800

Help! :-)

I'm facing a dense 200+ page PDF, no access to original source, and need
to copy the contents into a Frame document.
The PDF has no graphics, but at a guess, I'd say there are probably 600
tables.
In the Frame document, I need to use our standard table layout.

The 'best' solution I've found so far is to export the pdf to a plain
text file, copy the plain text into the Frame document, manually apply
formatting, and manually insert tables (copying the plain text contents
into the tables).

This is going to take forever :-) So... I was wondering if anybody has
any better suggestions (process and/or tools).

Thanks!

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