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Topic: RE: Best pdf extraction tool (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) General, Msg: 123948
From: flagos
Date: 12/16/2004 06:01 AM

Carlos:

In my experience there is no reliable way to convert "any" pdf back to a
"flow kind" format. You have to deal with special cases. Perhaps if the pdf
is tagged, you could obtain a better output, but always depends on the
inteligence of the tool.

Hope this help.

Fernando Lagos
flagos@CqsSistemas.com.ar
http://www.CqsSistemas.com.ar



>From: "p-pdf-general Listmanager"
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>Reply-To: "(P-PDF) General"
>To: (Recipients of 'p-pdf-general' suppressed)
>Subject: Best pdf extraction tool
>Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 04:12:03 1100
>
>From: "bluearrow"
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>
>Hi,
>
>I convert a lot of PDF documents to DOC, RTF or other format using Gemini,
>Omnipage or the utility included in Acrobat 6.0.
>
>However, neither of these utilities can manage the format accurately. For
>instance, when converting to Word, any of these utilities introduce many
>foreign elements that can be considered garbage (I mean format element, not
>wrong characters). I have not found a program or a way to deal with these
>elements different from a tedious manual reviewing and repairing of the
>converted documents.
>
>Do you know of any extraction utility that betters the one I mention
>regarding maintining the format of the document?
>
>Plase take into account that I never use the option (present in these
>programs) to convert the document into text boxes (it is generally an
>option to keep the format resemblance to the original). This is useless for
>most practical purposes.
>
>Thank you very much,
>
>Carlos
>
>
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