[p2p-research] reverting from pdf to word query

[Chris Watkins]

So for, the only thing I'm aware of that works well is using Acrobat Reader
Professional. Universities or workplaces often have it. If you have this,
see Save a PDF file as a Word document, HTML file, or
image<http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/acr7at_savepdfas/>
.

We work with PDF documents at Appropedia sometimes, taking them and converting
to wiki markup<http://www.appropedia.org/Help:Porting_PDF_files_to_MediaWiki>,
and it starts with getting access to this program. We'd certainly like a
smoother process, and an open source process. I'm aware of the programs that
Sam mentions, but I haven't had the chance to try yet (I need to sit down
with a Linux wizard and learn how to compile packages).


On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:22, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > I hope someone can help with this small technical query from Bernard
> Lietaer:
> >
> > "Is there a solution to revert the pdf version to a Word version?"
>
> Sam writes: It's too bad that PDF does not contain some form of
> metadata, (like SVG for instance) that would make conversion an easier
> task.
>
> http://www.scribus.net/ has limited success *editng* PDF documents:
> http://rants.scribus.net/2006/12/10/pdf-surgery/ if you are simply
> looking to change what is in it.
>
> PDF was orginally largely used in practice as format for people in the
> printing industry to maintain document image quality. It's really good
> for this purpose, but not so great for sharing a co-editable document.
>
> Also, I have heard that people have had good success with PDF2HTML or
> to XML conversions (I believe there is a Perl script that will do
> this, and I recall trying it out several years ago). Then, you could
> do HTML or XML to > Your favorite desktop document editor
>
> Here's one written on C++
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Michel
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