Convert scaned PDF documents to text?
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The previous answers are wrong.   If your documents are truly scanned (that is, they are bit images of your pages, with text on them), you need OCR, optical character recognition software.  As far as I know, Adobe doesn't make this.  \n\nOmniPage is the name of one such program.  Before you buy it, make sure  it can read the format of file (PDF) that you have.\n\nKeep in mind that the process is not perfect and depends on the quality of the scanning that was done.   Even with very good scanning, the documents are likely to need some final editing to make them error-free.
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Portable Document Format. Printer friendly format which to a large degree preserves the document's original appearance. Requires installation of Adobe Acrobat Reader.\n\nSearch for a website that gives free download of Acrobat Reader.  It won't take u more than 10 mins, and after the Reader has been downloaded, you can access any PDF form in the net or the PDFs that been sent to u.\n\nGood luck!
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There are somany freewares available. Search for pdf converter in google\n\nhttp://www.gold-software.com/download5619.html\nhttp://www.softpile.com/Business/Text_Utilities/Review_20422_index.html
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Try to download and install a free program called Adobe Acrobat.\n\nhttp://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
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There aren't any.  The most programs can do is try to "Translate" the PDF into documents. They are NEVER perfect... And on complex PDF's, the output is so bad that it's almost easier to re-type it in.
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Adobe Reader is what you need to open pdf documents.  \n\nwww.adobe.com
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There is some freeware you can download to convert any printable document into a pdf
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If you're using a Windows machine, as long as your scanner is TWAIN compliant (didn't see it on the Microtek site, but most are), any OCR software should be compatible with it.  If it is not TWAIN complaint, you will need to scan the document to an image file, then OCR the image file.\n\nI've always had good luck with OmniPage, which produces versions both for Windows and Mac.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader!!!!!!
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You need Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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Change your scaning options. Most scanners have options that will allow you to change things like that.\nIf not send the scann to word (or other program) and then save adjust the size as needed and save it as PDF (I assume you have writer).
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Firstly, you can convert the PDF to a text file at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html\n\nThen you can fill it out and convert it back in to a PDF using a free trial at  https://createpdf.adobe.com/cgi-country.pl?BP=&LOC=en_US&sourcecode=106578  you do need to register, but they don't charge.\n\nHope this helps :)
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If you want to change the contents of the file...\nWell you need an optical character recognition (OCR) program that will scan your image and extract the text.\nGet Abbyy Fine Reader or Page Master Pro, or if you have Office XP or 2003, use the provided Document Imaging tool.
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a) scan it and send it as a picture.\nb) scan it and use an OCR program to turn it into text, and send it as a text (word or notepad) document\nc) type it out.\n\na) is quick, but may not be easily readable unless you use a good resolution (which means a big document size, when you send it)\n\nb) produces a good result, but is fairly fiddly, and you will probably spend a lot of time editing the document.\n\nc) may be quicker that b) in the long run, but doesn't take into account if there are any pictures in the document
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For PDF to Word conversion, I've found that SolidPDF does a good job. It does a very good job of preserving formatting - not perfect, but very good. \n\nSource(s):\nhttp://www.solidpdf.com/
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Conversion to Word or Excel is not possible. However if the copy feature of the .pdf file hasn't been disabled, you can copy and paste from .pdf to other file types. Quet often Copy..Paste feature doesn't dive very satisfactory answer. Needs a lot of work to fix after you paste the data.
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You have to use an Optical Character Recognition software (OCR). Usually one comes with the scanner.  It reads the page, and does its best to convert the page into a text file that you can edit.