anyone know of a free utility that will do this?

copy and paste won't work

9/26/2005 2:07:34 PM

if you don't have to edit the document, you can copy the entire pdf as an image and paste the image in word

9/26/2005 2:11:20 PM

i bet you could use the select text function and then copy/paste

9/26/2005 2:12:12 PM

that document that you have in pdf may be a scanned copy, which would make it a photo instead of a word processing document.

9/26/2005 2:12:30 PM

should have been more specific. I need to edit the document. It won't let me copy more than one line at a time, and it won't let me save it as a .doc file from acrobat 7. It has some sort of protection enabled. The text in the document is going to stay the same for the most part, most importantly i need to replace some of the pictures that are in the original

[Edited on September 26, 2005 at 2:13 PM. Reason : pics]

9/26/2005 2:12:51 PM

Have you tried going to word and seeing if there is anything in there that will convert PDF? If Acrobat doesn't do it, maybe word will.

9/26/2005 2:19:48 PM

When I open a pdf with acrobat I can choose 'save as' then change the 'save as type' to Word.

MS word only has function to convert to pdf, not open.

9/26/2005 2:41:16 PM

^ there's no option to save to word from acrobat.

from acrobat i can save it as rtf. but i lose the pics. Which i'm replacing anyway so i'll just go from there. preciate the suggestions

[Edited on September 26, 2005 at 2:42 PM. Reason : ^]

9/26/2005 2:41:38 PM

It has been a while since I used it but I know I used the Pro version to make edits directly to the pdf document. You bypass the word mess all together.

9/26/2005 2:43:30 PM

did you try the advanced editing options

and, i have never seen anything that will convert .pdf to a .doc

thats one reason people will send a file in .pdf format b/c it can not be edited.

thats what we do here at work anyways when we have to email invoices and the such

9/26/2005 4:05:18 PM

If it's a protected pdf, then you can find pdf cracks on the net. But all the good ones I've found you have to pay for. Unless you know the protection code, you're SOL

9/26/2005 4:10:30 PM

quick way if you don't have to type much would be to put it in word as an image and set the properties to where it can be typed over. Background image, foreground text, prints as an edited document.

9/27/2005 1:06:12 AM

Another option (which may not work) would be to print the document and then scan it back into the computer using a scanner with text recognition software. The scanner I bought a few years ago had this software and it does a decent job for text and tries to keep images as images.

Something to try if you have the hardware/software..

9/27/2005 1:13:17 AM

^ you don't need to print it and scan it. You could just save the screenshot as an image file and run an OCR program on the image.

9/27/2005 2:37:28 AM