OT: Converting .pdf to .doc or .txt

Will · #1 January 10th, 2008, 01:12 AM

I know Acrobat has this, but am not sure about Acrobat Reader... but there is an option in the (I think) Tools menu that lets you chunk out pages of a PDF into different files.

Failing that, I second the PDF Print driver. Just "print" whatever page range you want to that driver, and it will save it to a new, smaller, PDF file.

dogscoff · #2 January 10th, 2008, 06:28 AM

There are loads of freeware/shareware/trialware/crippleware pdf>other format converters out there. Some are good, some less so, but they should all be able to extract the text from the files so that you can copy/paste it into a .txt file.

Try http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0....erter&tag=srch for starters.

Dan_ · #3 January 10th, 2008, 08:58 AM

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Will said:
Failing that, I second the PDF Print driver. Just "print" whatever page range you want to that driver, and it will save it to a new, smaller, PDF file.

This was what I was thinking. You can install Cute PDF writer - a free virtual printer which when printed to saves the output to a new pdf (it asks for a file name when you print). Just 'print' what you want into a smaller pdf and send that.

But a CD or thumb drive would be easiest.

Leternel · #4 January 10th, 2008, 02:09 PM

in the category "crazy idea", you can use tools that recognize text from pictures to read screenshot from the pdf...

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 January 12th, 2008, 01:02 PM

...What's 2 + 2?

Hey, it's your sig.

Aiken · #6 January 14th, 2008, 06:13 PM

Google for pdf2any, pdf2doc, pdf2txt, pdf2whateveryouwant.

Ragnarok-X · #7 January 20th, 2008, 04:13 PM

At work we are using small terminals to connect to the server, we call them "pizza box". Basicly, i would need to put my USB-Stick into the mainframe since the pizza-box itself is only some kind of node. Therefor, i need to use the mail-systme.

I will try to virtual printer and mail 20 pages at a time.

thanks !