Hi Terry
On 18/07/14 14:47, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know how I can use tools available in Linux to convert a PDF file
to MS Word .doc or .docx format (or even to LibreOffice .odt)?
Closest I'm aware of is pdftotext (also pdf2text, pdf2txt etc). But of
course you'll lose the formatting. There's also pdf2ps from which maybe
you can use
http://www.coolutils.com/PS-to-DOC
or something similar
Cheers
Tim
I thought I could do it using LibreOffice, but it reads the PDF content as if it
is a series of graphical objects with text labels. As a consequence, I can
only save it as .odg or export it to a graphical format.
The problem is that we have a number of specifications in PDF format. We need
to get them into an editable form (preferably word) because they need
translating.
At work I tried the real thing (Adobe Writer), but it seriously mangles the
format, even when it works.
The originals seem to have been created using a number of different tools; some
were created in MS Word 2010, some PDFCreator (presumably from a Word Source,
some with Acrobat Distiller and some by conversion from Postscript. Adobe
Writer was only able to save three out of five documents and they were not very
good.
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