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Re: Does anyone use Easy-to-use pdf to word?



> I would e-mail them with a sample document
> and see if they will run it.  Going backwards
> is difficult, I have to do that occasionally with
> documents where the source file was not
> vaulted (saved in a document system) along with the PDF that everyone sees.
>
> Acrobat Pro (BIG bucks, I have it at work)...

Here, too.  However, I use it primarily for creating -- not deconstructing -- PDF files.

> has that feature but it can take a lot of editing
> to put things back together properly if the PDF
> was created with columns or tables.

I've found the easiest way to do that is to move cut & paste the tables into a *.txt file.  That gets massaged and imported into an
Excel spreadsheet.  I do this with PDF price updates from distributors of which I receive several each week.  There can be anywhere
from a few score to several thousand SKU's on these documents so it was necessary to automate the process.  I've gotten it wdown to
a sort of science.  I can now import prices and generate brief product data from companies like GE (4000+ SKUs) in a matter of
minutes.

> The information is all there but it is not brought back in the proper locations on the page or
> sometimes even in the "right" order.

That is due to the manner in which PDF's handle page control elements.  If you can hack that you'll have an accurate means of
converting the files back to source docs.  You'll also get very rich.  You'll also probably wind up fighting Adobe's lawyers (even
if you're in the right).

> Since I don't have to do very many of these
> legacy documents, we have not looked very
> hard at other software.

If it's any good, I might use it.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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