Convert PDF in Preview to RTF or doc

how do I convert a PDF in Apple Preview (Tiger version) to RTF or Word Doc (Mac 2004 word version)?

As this is not a Firefox support question, this question is more suited to the Apple support forums - http://discussions.apple.com/

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Hi All,
I am Looking for FM which converts PDF file to EXCEL or Word Doc.
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I would suggest asking in the Export PDF forum, giving full details about your problem and your setup: Adobe ExportPDF (read only)

Convert pdf in preview to msword doc

Have a pdf sent through email and it
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How do I convert this pdf to a msword doc/file?
thx
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As this is not a Firefox support question, this question is more suited to the Apple support forums - http://discussions.apple.com/

Why when I convert pdf to word or rtf do some of the letters become characters? How do I fix that?

I need help on how to fix this or my purchase is not worth it if I have to go in and type all of the words in myself

Hi Didier1964,
I was able to replicate the issue at my end.
It seems to me that the issue is with the way the PDF has been created.
It seems that the fonts are not embedded correctly.
Please post your query in Acrobat forums for further support & troubleshooting the font issue as it might be a bug.
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How do I convert a pdf that is in preview to
a word doc?
Deb

I've found that some of the non-Adobe converters (and some of the free online converters) don't do such a good job as Acrobat Pro. If you want to try it out, you can download one of the free 30-day trial packages from Adobe that include Acrobat Pro X (such as Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard) and try it out for yourself. It won't cost you a thing to use for 30-days and each app is fully functional.
Just my 2¢... and if you want to get the best final product. Adobe also has an online service - Adobe CreatePDF -that will convert PDF to Word.
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Need to Convert PDF to doc in Russian, why programm do not recognice it?

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The OCR system that converts documents does not recognize any cyrillic languages, such as Russian. If the text is already renderable (selectable), you may want to try converting your document without the OCR function enabled. You can find steps here: http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-3062
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Any way to help me convert PDF format to word(.doc) on Mac

Hi,guys.Is there any one tell me how to convert PDF to word on Mac?
I am a middle school teacher.Recently I have a download some PDF file need to transfer to word as material for my working.As I use Mac OS has been doubly difficult for me,beacuse I am not familiar with mac system.
So any idea helpfully would be appreciated.

There is a very simple method and doesn't require new software.
Open a new Word document
Open the PDF in Preview (i.e., double click or right click and open with ... Preview)
Using the TEXT tool (button labeled "A') highlight the text you want to copy, then copy (i.e. Edit ... Copy, or right click .... Copy, or Command+C)
Paste the text into a Word document, and it will be editable.
If you want to copy the entire contents, you can use Command+A to select all contents, then copy and paste to Word document.
Preview actually works much better than Acrobat Professional in this respect because you don't carry over junk code from PDF.

Convert pdf to word doc-but don't have the export option.

I want to convert a pdf (that I got from an email) into a Word doc so I can edit it the way I want to. However, for some reason now I don't have the 'Export' option in my File drop down list.
Funny thing is, I've converted the document once already and have entirely forgotten how I did it obviously!
I've made so many changes in my first conversion I want to start over.
why don't I have the 'Export' option? Or ... when I do a 'save as' and chose 'word doc' it only does a copy - paste type save - where I can't make any changes. It's like it puts it into a text box or something.
I have MSWord 2010.

Hi Kelly,
MsDennis1465 wrote:
When I do the steps below, the Word doc that is saved is like a photo. I am unable to work with the document. Why does it do that? I have converted pdf’s before without that happening but I think I did it on a free 30-day trial of X Pro.
This usually happens when you're dealing with a very poor quality scanned document that doesn't have enough data for the Acrobat OCR engine to actually process.
As for Acrobat 6.0 Pro, I don't believe the Save as Word function was introduced until version 8.0, but it's been a few years and the memory of Acrobat 6 has faded a bit.
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I have Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 plus I create PDF files for work some are scan pdf docs. When I install Photoshop Elements 10 it DOES convert all the PDF files to Photoshop Elements-10 Docs. it even changes and shows the PSE-10 Icon. So I am alway inst

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Can you please share the logs?
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How to preserve original size when converting to PDF in Preview.

I'm using Preview in Snow Leopard.
Trying to create multipage PDFs from document scans.
I'm finding that when the scanned image (tiff, png, jpg) is converted to PDF in Preview the size reduces.
Selecting 'View actual size' shows the image with sometimes drastically impaired quality.
This does not always happen. I have some images that stay the same size and quality.
What factors cause this reduction in size in some images but not in others?
I'm not sure but this could be only images that have been scanned by me. If so, what do I need to do to prevent the problem?
These are not large images, just standard size pages.
I have all the preferences to view at 100%
This is not for printing, only for viewing on-screen.

Please!!
I'm not silly...
As I said, selecting View actual size shows the image with sometimes drastically impaired quality (regardless of the window size).
I also said I have preferences set to view at 100%
It now seems as if this is only happening with scans I've made here.
Images downloaded from the internet are converting indentically, no problem. But my scans are being resized when converting.
I wonder if anyone with a bit of technical know-how can give me some clues as to why this is happening. It would seem to be something to do with the file itself.
(There was another post on here with the same problem but for some reason its been 'archived' though the last posting was this month and the query was not answered. So I've posted the question again.)

I subscribed to Adobe PDF Pack, why can't I convert Pdf files to doc and/or jepg with my acrobat reader XI

I subscribed to Adobe PDF Pack, why can't I convert Pdf files to doc and/or jepg with my acrobat reader XI
I purchased the Pack three days ago, asked to sign in. when I try to sign in, I am led to a page to purchase the program.
What do I need to do to activate my subscribtion, so it will work with my reader XI?

Hi helmutb86458194,
Did you have an update for us? Your response came through blank...
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Applescript to convert PDF to JPEG using Preview?

I know there's an existing script available on the internet that converts PDFs to JPEGs (it's here: http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=25350) BUT, for whatever reason, the quality, even when set to 600dpi, is crap. I get better results simply opening the PDF in Preview then saving as JPEG... even a 150dpi JPG from Preview is higher quality than a 600dpi file from this script I found...
So, what I need help with is creating a applescript that converts PDF's to JPEGs using Preview (or whatever, as long as the quality of the JPEG is good). I have very little scripting experience so help is appreciate.
Ideas?
Thanks.

Frank Caggiano wrote:
Decided to finish this up as an interesting exercise. Hope you find it useful.
One question for the Applescripters here. The Automator action run as a shell script seems to return a list of filename aliases but the return value while looking like a list didn't behave as a list. I managed to rip it apart to get to the filepaths and the script works but it seems really kludgey . So my question is given the return of the Automator run as a do shell script what is a more correct way to handle it?
Convert PDF to JPG
          © 2011 Frank Caggiano
          GNU Public License
          Convert pfd files to jpg images.
          The converted JPG files wil have the name of the original PDF files with the extension changed to JPG.
          The actual conversion uses the Automator action Render PDF Pages as Images.
          The user needs to create an Automator action with Render Pages as Images as the single action.
          Set the parameters for the conversion in the action.
          NOTE: this script assumes you're converting to jpg files If you select another output format in the action this script will
          need to be modified.
-- choose PDF files
try
          set sourceFiles to choose file with prompt "Select PDF files" of type {"com.adobe.pdf"} with multiple selections allowed
on error msg number n
          if n ≠ -128 then
                    error "Unknow error: " & msg & space & n
          else
quit
          end if
end try
-- choose destination folder
try
          set destFolder to choose folder with prompt "Select Destination Folder"
on error msg number n
          if n ≠ -128 then
                    error "Unknow error: " & msg & space & n
          else
quit
          end if
end try
set destFolder to quoted form of POSIX path of destFolder
-- select workflow
try
          set workFlow to choose file with prompt "Select Work Flow" of type {"com.apple.automator-workflow"}
on error msg number n
          if n ≠ -128 then
                    error "Unknow error: " & msg & space & n
          else
quit
          end if
end try
set workFlow to POSIX path of workFlow
repeat with sourceFile in sourceFiles
-- get base name of the source file
          set bName to do shell script "basename " & quoted form of POSIX path of sourceFile
-- Strip off the extension
          set text item delimiters to "."
          set bName to text item 1 of bName
          try
                    set res to do shell script "automator -i " & quoted form of POSIX path of sourceFile & space & workFlow
          on error msg number n
                    error msg & space & n
          end try
-- Seems strange to do it this way but it works
          set text item delimiters to "\""
          set theList to text items of res
We go through the list of converted files. If there is more then one then the second and subsequent files
will get and integer added to the name to avoid conflict.
          set cnt to 0
          repeat with convertedFile in theList
                    if convertedFile does not contain "alias" and convertedFile does not contain "}" then
                              set fullPath to quoted form of POSIX path of convertedFile
                              if cnt ≠ 0 then
                                        do shell script "mv " & fullPath & space & destFolder & bName & "_" & cnt & ".JPG"
                              else
                                        do shell script "mv " & fullPath & space & destFolder & bName & ".JPG"
                              end if
                              set cnt to cnt + 1
                    end if
          end repeat
end repeat
Hi Frank--
I tried the script you wrote and created the Automator workflow with the single action as requested, saved it to the desktop then selected it when your script's dialogue requested it. However, at that point your script game me the following error. Ideas? I did save the workflow as a workflow and I selected it directly, so I'm not sure why it thinks that the "workflow file does not exist" ? :
error "The workflow file does not exist. 255" number -2700 from «script» to item

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Hi Tony,
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When attempting to convert pdf to word doc, I continually get "An error occurred while signing in" despite the fact that I'm already signed in. Please help if you can?

When attempting to convert pdf to word doc, I continually get "An error occurred while signing in" despite the fact that I'm already signed in. Please help if you can?

Hi lorrelaws,
Do you receive that error when you try to sign in via Reader? If so, try signing in via the web interface. Did that do the trick?
Let us know how it goes.
Best,
Sara

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Having issues with my adobe acrobat that I purchased for a year for 20 bucks is converting pdf. files to doc. files funcily...any ideas.

Or do you mean ExportPDF? If so, ask here http://forums.adobe.com/community/exportpdf
And when you do, provide some information what "funky" means; preferably post a screenshot of the original and the result.

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