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portseven replied

11 February 2009, 19:40
Originally posted by Sysman View Post

XPDF can be used for a lot of stuff, but you do need X11 to run it on.

Yeah there are a bunch of usefull PDF progs on Linux, pdfedit is good and there are some good commandline ones such as pdf2txt

As pdf is based on postscript you can also use vi and edit the code direct!
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Doggy Styles replied

11 February 2009, 16:49
Adobe Acrobat.

But as someone has said, it is pretty limited.
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Platypus replied

11 February 2009, 13:30
Originally posted by dinker View Post

Run it through an OCR program.

You should be able to "Select All" text and just paste into Word
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Sysman replied

11 February 2009, 13:21
XPDF can be used for a lot of stuff, but you do need X11 to run it on.
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dinker replied

11 February 2009, 13:16
Run it through an OCR program.
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Beefy198 replied

11 February 2009, 13:14
Yep, you can edit text but it is pretty basic.

I find it much easier to create what I need in a word processing programme (with any necessary tables or pictures) then PDF it up from there.
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Platypus replied

11 February 2009, 13:08
Originally posted by Money Money Money View Post

Actually translating an infomation booklet from german to english!

AFAIK, PDF isn't really a fully editable format like Word. Using Adobe I can "touch up" a document, i.e. change words on a line, but replacing images, re-justifying long/short lines, no.
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Bear replied

11 February 2009, 12:04
I wonder if this might be it

http://www.convertpdftoword.net/
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Bear replied

11 February 2009, 12:02
I've used an online app that coverted a pdf to Word for me - I'll see if I can track it down
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Money Money Money replied

11 February 2009, 11:19
Actually translating an infomation booklet from german to english!
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NotAllThere replied

11 February 2009, 11:11
Or a contractor who's received a contract he doesn't like...
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DodgyAgent replied

11 February 2009, 11:08
Originally posted by Money Money Money View Post

Just tried it, although its very limited, you can only really add things or tip-ex them out. I need to copy text and images.

You're a recruitment agent are'nt you?
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Money Money Money replied

11 February 2009, 11:00
Originally posted by bobhope View Post

Did you try:

http://www.pdfescape.com/

?

Just tried it, although its very limited, you can only really add things or tip-ex them out. I need to copy text and images.
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Clippy replied

11 February 2009, 10:43
Originally posted by Money Money Money View Post

Aren't all PDF's protected?

I just want to edit the text.

No - only if the creator has locked it down in this way.
Check the properties of the document which will tell you.
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bobhope replied

11 February 2009, 10:41
Did you try:

http://www.pdfescape.com/

?
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