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Subject:RE: PDF conversion to Word (tables!) From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:02:41 -0500
Don't know if I should mention this one... www.pdf-file.com *claims* to
convert tables.
But just a few months ago, Gene wrote that pdf-file performed badly with
"anything more elaborate than vanilla inline text and images."
I've never used it myself.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R D
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:41 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: PDF conversion to Word (tables!)
>
> Not to beat a dead horse here- I know there have been a lot
> of posts concerning PDF conversion to Word- but I seem unable
> to find any conversion tools that accurately copy a table as
> a table from PDF to Word. Of course I can copy a PDF table
> accurately using "copy as table" from within Acrobat Pro
> Extended but I need a conversion tool for our developers to
> copy tables from PDF to Word. Any suggestions? It seems all
> the PDF conversion tools will copy the appearance of a table
> into a Word document but it is not a real table that you can edit.
>
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