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    How to convert a COMPLETE PDF file (not just 1st page)?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by vaw, Mar 4, 2016.

  1. vaw

    vaw Notebook Deity

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    I have a 2-page PDF file that I need to convert to MS Word. I used the free online software OnlineOCR ( http://www.onlineocr.net/) , but it only converted the first page. Could someone help me find out how to convert all the pages? (and if only one page, how to break the original file into two files, one page each)?

    Many thanks in advance.
     
  2. bennni

    bennni Notebook Evangelist

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  3. vaw

    vaw Notebook Deity

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    Thanks. Will try that.
    The OnlineCCR doesn't say it can only convert the first page, so I wonder if there is something I didn't know. Would be nice if the complete file can be converted at once.
     
  4. StormJumper

    StormJumper Notebook Virtuoso

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    Word depending on which version you have can open PDF-did you try that.
     
  5. killkenny1

    killkenny1 Too weird to live, too rare to die.

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    How complex is that PDF document?
    Sometimes a simple copy-paste works.
     
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  6. t456

    t456 1977-09-05, 12:56:00 UTC

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    Required a few ' multi-pdf -> doc's the other day as well. Tried three or four online thingies, but the results were ... abysmal. Used a trial version of Foxit's PhantomPDF in the end; perfect.

    Funny thing, though; while typing this remember I already had Calibre installed as well. It's free, open source, can do batch and is incredibly versatile:

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    Normally use it to convert all kinds of proprietary ebook formats to plaint text or html, but the pdfs went peachy, too. Fantastic program, hard to believe it's free :cool: .