RE: Convert PDF tables to Word?

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Ridder
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:27 AM
> To: ; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Convert PDF tables to Word?
> 
> Tables always present a huge challenge to any tool that tries 
> to convert PDF back into some editable format. PDF is 
> essentially an electronic form of a printed document, and has 
> no real notion of paragraphs or even of sentences. In a PDF 
> file, you have lines of text and you have graphic objects. 
> When there's a table, you have a lot of small lines of text 
> that aren't read linearly across the page, but do 
> (presumably) make sense when assembled into paragraphs and 
> table cells/rows/columns by a human reader. But it's really 
> asking a lot to expect a software tool to correctly 
> reassemble all those short text fragments based solely on 
> their position on the page. 
>  

Well, maybe it's asking a lot, but www.pdf-file.com ($30) claims to do
this. I've read good things about it, but never tried it myself. I
believe there are other tools that make the same claim.

















































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