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Any software/idea how to convert pdf document to word document?
tambunan
Posted 2009-09-08T12:39:50.987
Reputation: 474
Convert PDF to Word document?
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Looks free, Just tried it and it works well for me.
William Hilsum
Posted 2009-09-08T12:39:50.987
Reputation: 111 572
2it sometimes takes a lot of time to receive the converted document, but it works well. – alex – 2009-09-08T12:47:06.647
6I guess you should not use this for confidential documents, as you never know what they do with the documents you submit. – Snark – 2009-09-08T12:48:42.387
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Google Docs is now testing a new API feature that uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on images and PDFs.
From Google Operating System:
Google Docs API tests a new feature that lets you perform OCR (optical character recognition) on an image. There's a live demo that illustrates this feature: you can upload a high-resolution JPG, GIF, or PNG image that has less than 10 MB and Google Docs extracts the text and converts it into a new document. Google mentions that "the operation can currently take up to 40 seconds" and a small test showed that the service is not yet reliable: it's slow and it frequently returns errors.
The results are far from perfect and you'll find many errors, but the service is free and it's constantly improving. Here's the result of the OCR for this scanned document:
A Google Docs document can be exported in a number of different formats, including HTML, OpenOffice, and Word:
Jared Harley
Posted 2009-09-08T12:39:50.987
Reputation: 11 692
I read Google Drive will only OCR the first ten pages of a document. I wonder if this is true for this import feature. – Sun – 2014-09-20T22:14:57.743
I can't find this feature, anyone think it still exists? – raphael – 2016-06-27T13:43:48.713
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Per my answer on SO to Does anyone know of a way to easily convert a PDF to a docx format programmatically:
Convert PDF to SVG (ghostscript will do it) and import that...
...the point being that while Word won't embed PDF, it will embed SVG.
Charles Stewart
Posted 2009-09-08T12:39:50.987
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pdfonline does a pretty decent job.
şaloma
Posted 2009-09-08T12:39:50.987
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Use an optical character recognition program, like Omnipage Pro for instance. It supports PDF as a document input and Word as an output.
Snark
Posted 2009-09-08T12:39:50.987
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You may also try OCRTerminal which offers free service for 20 pages per month. They have a Beta Desktop Client that seems to be available for use by invitation (you have to contact them and express interest).
techtechmo
Posted 2009-09-08T12:39:50.987
Reputation: 314
-1 for no research efforts. it was just a google search away. there are plenty of them out there... – tumchaaditya – 2012-10-19T11:34:30.453
pls try to add some more info. – Deb – 2013-06-09T09:44:00.340