Re: open pdf documents and save them as spreadsheets or word documents
John The solution is much simpler, at least on a Mac. Simply mark, copy, and paste to wherever you want the text to be. However, you loose formatting. As to spreadsheets, copy the table to a temporary file, replace whatever separates the cell contents with a comma or semicolon, and read the temporary file as a .CSV file. On 2. Jul 2014, at 22:21 , Baccara bbacc...@tstonramp.com wrote: Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 13:39:12 -0400 Thomas, John john.tho...@daytonohio.gov wrote: Can open office translate .pdf files to spreadsheets or word documents? Sincerely, John Thomas No. You need to use an OCR (Optical Character recognition) application to do that. For spreadsheets and other work involving figures most careful proof-reading of the OCR output is required. OCR - does that equate to Adobe creates an image (jpg or ?) from any document printed to / saved as a pdf document? PDF document can be opened with a pdf reader (free from Adobe and other sources), content highlighted, copied then pasted to another program such as OO Writer; MS Word then saved in the new format? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
open pdf documents and save them as spreadsheets or word documents
Can open office translate .pdf files to spreadsheets or word documents? Sincerely, John Thomas John A. Thomas Application Analyst City of Dayton Central Services / Information Technology 130 W. Second Street, Suite 320 Dayton, OH 45402 Phone: 937.333.6321 FAX: 937.333.7835 Email: john.tho...@daytonohio.gov
Re: open pdf documents and save them as spreadsheets or word documents
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 13:39:12 -0400 Thomas, John john.tho...@daytonohio.gov wrote: Can open office translate .pdf files to spreadsheets or word documents? Sincerely, John Thomas No. You need to use an OCR (Optical Character recognition) application to do that. For spreadsheets and other work involving figures most careful proof-reading of the OCR output is required. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: open pdf documents and save them as spreadsheets or word documents
Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 13:39:12 -0400 Thomas, John john.tho...@daytonohio.gov wrote: Can open office translate .pdf files to spreadsheets or word documents? Sincerely, John Thomas No. You need to use an OCR (Optical Character recognition) application to do that. For spreadsheets and other work involving figures most careful proof-reading of the OCR output is required. OCR - does that equate to Adobe creates an image (jpg or ?) from any document printed to / saved as a pdf document? PDF document can be opened with a pdf reader (free from Adobe and other sources), content highlighted, copied then pasted to another program such as OO Writer; MS Word then saved in the new format?
