Try this.

http://www.docudesk.com/deskUNPDF_Professional_PDF-to-Word-Converter_2e.
shtml?gclid=CIKFoZH07poCFQE0xgodziQwjQ 


Regards,
 
Chris Orovet
ATSI Technical Support
[email protected]
727-812-0276
American Transcription Solutions, Inc.
http://www.atsi-inc.com 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Kind of OT: PDF to Word converters

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Ralph Smith <[email protected]>
wrote:
> does anyone have experience with a PDF to Word converter that does a 
> consistently good job bringing PDFs into Word maintaining formatting?

  This is a hard problem.  Short answer is you won't find anything that
does a good job.

  PDFs are essentially electronic paper[1].  Just like you can't easily
turn a printed paper document back into a Word file, you can't easily
turn a PDF into a Word file.  Even in the best cases, you usually just
get the raw text.  Sometimes the text is all jumbled up.
Some PDFs are raster images, which means they don't even have anything
the computer will recognize as text.  (Scanned documents, for
example.)  You have to run OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software
on the PDF to even get any text, and OCR is an imperfect process.

  This is a request people keep bring to me.  I've tried countless "but
I saw this program on a website that said it would do it" demos, and
none of them have come close to doing a good job.

[1] Well, that was the original idea.  In their quest to come up with
excuses for people to upgrade to the latest release of Acrobat, Adobe
has perverted the idea quite a bit.  But the core design remains.

-- Ben

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