PDF to Writer

susehelp · Newbie Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 4

Dear all,

I'm on Suse 10.1 and OOW 2.0. How can i get a pdf copied to OOW or in otherwords do i have a method to convert PDF to some format which OOW will understand.

Thanks in advance

esperantisto · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:29 am Post subject:

I don't know, if it's possible with Linux, but on Windows you have generally two options:
a) Use a converter program (such as ScanSoft PDF converter) that can convert PDF to RTF or Microsoft Word (to the best of my knowledge, no program can directly convert PDF to Opendocument).
b) Feed a PDF file to an OCR program (such as ABBYY FineReader) and recognize it.

However, all programs of this kind that I know are not free.

Robert Tucker · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:32 am Post subject:

On Linux KWord ( www.koffice.org/kword ) will attempt to open a .pdf in an editable form.

susehelp · Newbie Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 4

Thanks robert. It worked for me. Will it work for all the PDFs ?

Thanks again

Robert Tucker · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:04 am Post subject:

It will probably work quite well for simple single column texts, except that it will make each line a paragraph.

Otherwise, extracting the text and the images with Xpdf's pdftotext and pdfimages and resetting the document will often prove to be the most effective way.