When i covert pdf to word my text is unrecognizable ?

when i covert pdf to word my text is unrecognizable ?

Hi pumpkins mommy,
Can you please tell me how the PDF was created? The quality of a conversion depends largely on the quality of the original PDF. Please see Will Adobe ExportPDF convert both text and form... | Adobe Community for an explanation of how ExportPDF handles conversions.
If the PDF wasn't created from a scanned document, and already has editable/searchable text, disabling OCR may help. Please see How to disable Optical Character Recognition (O... | Adobe Community.
Best,
Sara

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I have a PDF template I filled out, for the cover of my thesis, which included 3 fields. I am using the trial version of Adobe Acrobat XI Pro, and saved the filled in template as a new PDF. So far, so good. However, I need to covert the PDF into Word. When I do so, and open the new Word doc, the text I filled in is gone. Help?
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Hi hamsa142,
Is this problem specific to one file, or does it happen with any file that you convert to PDF? How was the PDF created (using what application)?
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I was starting to think this might be an issue with font fauxing (I think that's the tech term). You've confirmed it.
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Font designers design a font, and (if they have the enthusiasm) bold and italic and bold-italic versions of the font. If you compare carefully, you will see that they are often quite different designs (look at lower case "a" for example, you'll often see that different in italic). Anyway, in an ideal world the font designer has provided four font files. Choose the bold/italic buttons in Word and it (well, actually Windows) picks the right font file.
But Word never forbids you from choosing those buttons even if the font files aren't there. (As an aside, pro design tools like InDesign WILL stop you choosing a style for which there is no font file, because what happens next in Word is considered evil).
If you ask Windows (or Mac OS) to show you a font in italic and there is no italic font file, it will take the regular file and slant each character. This may look different from the italic design font, it may also have different spacing. But to the casual word processor user, all is fine. (The pro designer says "oh my, look at that"). No bold? The font letters get thickened up somehow, often with ugly results, but the casual user is happy, because it's clearly the same font and clearly bolder. These processes are called "fauxing" (from making a faux or fake font).
But what happens in a PDF? PDFs will not faux fonts, and they don't have to. If you make a PDF it's like printing. To print a faux italic font, a slanted font prints. Generally looks no worse than the screen font. To print a faux bold font there are several different techniques, all ugly. One is to print several copies of each letter, slightly set off from each other but overlayed. This isn't only ugly, copy/paste often yields something like BBBOOOLLLDD TTTEEEXXXTTT. Often the printed bold faux font doesn't look much like the screen bold faux font. And here we have your situation exactly.
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