[X-Newbies] Another PDF file question.

[Brian Durant]

Thanks Randy,

TextLightning seems to do the best job of .rtf formating from .pdf
that I have seen in OS X. There don't seem to be any OS X programs
(except maybe OmniPage Pro and the full version of Acrobat) that will
convert to .doc format.

Cheers,

Brian


On 1/5/07, Randy B. Singer <randy at macattorney.com> wrote:
> Brian Durant said:
>
> >I have managed to recover some of my resume files after my hard disk
> >debacle from another source. Unfortunately, they are in .pdf format
> >and I need to be able to convert them into .doc files to preserve as
> >much of the formating as possible. Are there any simple OS X apps that
> >can do this well?
>
>
> It depends on what you mean by "well".  PDF's were never designed to be
> converted into word processing documents, even if they originated from
> one.  So even the best program for doing the conversion won't be perfect.
>
> See:
>
> TextLightning
> http://www.metaobject.com/Products.html
>
> PDF2RTFService 1.0 (free)
> http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/services.html
>
> PDFtotext (free, most formatting not retained)
> http://www.bluem.net/downloads/pdftotext_en
>
> OmniPage Pro and the full version of Acrobat will also do it, but I
> assume that you aren't looking for a solution that is that expensive.
>
>
> Randy B. Singer
>
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