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From: shrink4g on 27 Jul 2010 13:10
Is there such application exist as freeware? I know it exist in the
commercial sector but never heard of availability in the freeware area.
Thanks.
From: H-Man on 27 Jul 2010 13:48
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:10:35 -0500, shrink4g wrote:

> Is there such application exist as freeware? I know it exist in the
> commercial sector but never heard of availability in the freeware area.
> Thanks.

Adobe will convert the document to HTML at
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html
Once in HTML you can load it and convert it to any number of different
document types.

There is also the free
http://www.somepdf.com/some-pdf-to-html-converter.html

I think you may find you results a bit mixed as PDF does not really lend
itself well to editing as it is intended as virtual paper as it were.

I have had pretty good success with the Sun PDF Import extension or
OpenOffice.org. Once imported the results can be exported as HTML and
worked on from there, or saved as an OOo draw document. It's a bit tough to
get it to a .ODF format though. Most converters that convert to .DOC
formats don't really work all that well.

--
HK
From: Mike S. on 27 Jul 2010 13:50

In article <i2n3ub$6uj$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
shrink4g <shrink4g(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>Is there such application exist as freeware? I know it exist in the
>commercial sector but never heard of availability in the freeware area.
> Thanks.

This page compares some of the options:
[CAUTION: word wrap]

http://www.freewaregenius.com/2010/03/06/how-to-convert-pdf-to-word-doc-for-free-a-comparative-test/
From: Ron on 27 Jul 2010 16:20
On 7/27/2010 10:10 AM, shrink4g wrote:
> Is there such application exist as freeware? I know it exist in the
> commercial sector but never heard of availability in the freeware area.
> Thanks.

AnyBizSoft is giving away their latest version of PDF to Word Converter
through Facebook. This page bypasses the Facebook nonsense. From the
main page:

"Key Features

Supported Formats

* Support importing Adobe PDF 1.0�1.7 formats (.pdf)
* Support encrypted PDF files conversion


Convert PDF to Word Accurately

* PDF to Word Converter preserves the original layouts of text,
columns, tables, graphics and hyperlinks of PDF files to Ms Word
documents. There's no need to retype or reformat the converted documents


3 Efficient Conversion modes

* Batch conversion�Convert 200 PDF files at one time
* Partial conversion�Select any pages from the PDF file to convert
* Right-click conversion�Right click on a PDF file and convert it
into a Word document without launching the program


Miscellaneous

* Extremely easy to use
* User-friendly interface
* Doesn't need Adobe Reader or Acrobat to be installed
* Doesn't require Microsoft Word
* Support PDF files in 10 languages: English, Turkish, Thai, Latin,
Korean, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese


Operating Systems
# OS: Windows 2003/XP/Vista/7 32bit
# Minimum Hardware Requirements: 500 MHz processor, 256 MB Memory, 15 MB
hard disk space"

Register to get the keycode. (untick the box for newsletters unless you
don't get /enough/ email.) I don't know about any time limit on this...

I use it - generally it works very well. Image rendering is fair.
http://www.anypdftools.com/pdf-to-word-get-keycode.html

hth
Ron


From: Ron on 27 Jul 2010 17:17
On 7/27/2010 1:44 PM, Bear Bottoms wrote:
> Ron<rmoore85(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote in
> news:i62dnUAXR84xotLRnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d(a)earthlink.com:
>
>> http://www.anypdftools.com/pdf-to-word-get-keycode.html
>
> I just downloaded from that link, and the email came instantly with the
> registration info...I registered and converted a 23 page pdf (eraser
> manual) and it converted it to document in about one minute and it was
> perfect...tables, pix, and text. Not many freeware or free online
> conversions will do this.
>
It /is/ pretty good. I've been using it for about 2 1/2 months - no
real problems. Glad you like it - I might have even been willing to
(whisper) /pay/ for this!

Ron
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