You might find the PDF conversion program associated with Nuance OmniPage to be a useful choice, even though the PDF is not an image file. It can attempt to make an editable and presentable Word or Excel document out of your PDF.
I learned recently that you can paste a page at a time from a PDF document into Microsoft Word by doing something like the following: Go to your starting page in the browse buffer (provided that you have Adobe Reader running in single-page mode). Turn off auto-loading for Window-Eyes by pressing Insert-A. Turn off Browse mode with Ctrl-Shift-A. Have Word open. In Adobe Reader, press Ctrl-A and then CTrl-C. This puts the selected page, attributes and all, onto the Windows clipboard. Switch to Word and paste that page. Switch back to Adobe Reader and go to the next page (spacebar or ctrl-PgDn). Select that page, copy to clipboard, switch to Word, paste, etc. until you get tired of this process. Other possibilities are to choose a useful reading order, set Acrobat Reader to display the entire document at once, press Ctrl-A (or select a range of lines), ctrl-C, open Notepad and paste the text into Notepad. The Save as Text option from Acrobat Reader doesn't always give the best results (or the results that would be most useful for your purposes). I often get different results when trying reading order options 1, 2 and 4 (if tagged reading order is available). PDF has been an ISO standard for several years, and tagged PDF is well on its way to becoming another ISO standard. Will we ever see an improved reading experience that isn't a crap-shoot? I don't know. Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Ehrler [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 8:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: looking for Win Eyes friendly PDF Reader > > > Recently I have run into issues with Adobe Reader X acting strange with > some complex PDF documents. Even when I was able to read the file in > Adobe, if I exported it to text with save as, I ended up with lines full > of words run together with no spaces and/or one word per line in some > places. I have used the repair option in the Adobe help menu and even > removed Reader X to install version 9 but got the same results. A friend > who still uses version 7 of Adobe Reader was able to save the exact same > PDF to a good text file, so it isn't just a bad PDF issue. I tried > installing FoxIt Reader this morning to see if it was accessible. I made > it most of the way through the install on my laptop, running Windows XP > Home, but ran into some kind of error before install completed. It could > have been a bad download but thought I would ask for PDF reader > suggestions before trying the FoxIt install again. > > Richard Ehrler > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to gw- > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
