I use the Foxit Reader's facility to Save As text versions of documents. I have
the paid for version (worth having anyway), and don't know whether the free
version does this. it will probably not work with documents that originated as
photocopies: for that you may need an OCR programme.
best wishes
In article <334552512.20101210144...@gmail.com>, douglas.hi...@gmail.com
(Douglas
Hinds) wrote:
> *From:* Douglas Hinds <douglas.hi...@gmail.com>
> *To:* Daniel Lewis <users@openoffice.org>
> *Date:* Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:47:08 -0600
>
> > It might help if you had stated what you meant by "the results
> > were not
> > adequate."
>
> OO writer can now open pdf files, but it opens them in OO Draw and
> each and every line is included in it's own text box so the
> documents flow is totally lost for the purpose of editing. The
> letterhead didn't appear, either. And we are describing a pdf
> document created in writer and exported to pdf from there.
>
> > What type of editing do you want to do?
>
> I want a faithful reproduction of the pdf file in a totally editable
> form.
>
> > Where does OOo fail to do what you want?
>
> It doesn't do the above. OO opens pdf files in Draw - that means
> it's a graphics rather than a document file.
>
> Perhaps there's a configuration that can change this - which is
> the reason for my post today to users at oo.org.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Douglas Hinds
>
Niall Martin
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