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Old 02-22-2019, 02:32 AM
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The whole point of PDF is that it is a graphical representation of a document. It is not meant to be edited. Depending on how it was made, recent Word versions can open it and make a stab at converting it to Word format, but the layout will be hit and miss.


Some OCR software can make a better stab at the job - e.g. Finereader is pretty good as such software goes, but converting graphics to editable text is never going to be easy and in a complex document probably impossible to recreate it as it was originally.
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