Need Acrobat Adobe Professional help

[paineinthearse]

If anyone can convert a pdf to text, I need help converting two documents at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3170867#3170912, posts #1 & 3.

Both are public domain documents on a Senate site.

thanks in advance.

[Oreo]

1. Adobe won't convert scanned images to text

You would need OCR software for that. I've tried for many an hour to do it. Adobe can only convert a document that was originally converted from a Word document to pdf. If it was scanned (which this one appears to have been) only OCR can do it.

[datasuspect]

2. i can

do you want word or a text file?

please tell me which ones . . .

[Stephanie]

3. Those PDF's are not text-based so they would have to be scanned

and OCR'd. Could do it for you tomorrow if no one get to it today. That's the only way to do it - can't convert them.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. When I need to save & post PDF contents (and it's a short PDF)

I get a good full page view (i run my monitor at 1600x1200) and do a screen cap. Then I crop, resize, tweak and compress to .jpg as necessary.

It ain't text, but it's not PDF anymore, either.

[datasuspect]

5. are you talking about a .pdf file or an image file?

[chookie]

6. Acrobat CAN convert it to text

Acrobat Professional does have built in OCR capabilities.

Let me go to my other computer, and I will send you instructions in a few minutes.

[chookie]

9. How to get text

I think I misunderstood -- that you had a hardcopy you needed to convert. Forget that. You want to convert a .pdf to text, so you can open and edit it in WORD, correct?

How to get text: Open the .pdf file in Adobe Illustrator. In the document page/pages, you will find text boxes. Highlight them with the text tool, copy them, and then paste it into your Word document OR "Export" as .txt file within Illustrator.

[yvr girl]

7. Do you just need the text?

Or do you need the formatting too?

[datasuspect]

8. i converted them to word docs - where do you want me to send them?