About Glenn Fraller Expertise Even though I am donating my time to AllEperts.com and I am an Expert, this does NOT mean I know ALL the answers to ALL questions! It seems to me today, people seem to want too much from certain people. I am here because I want to help lead people in a direction I would go. My expertise is limited to Adobe Acrobat 5 (PC) and Acrobat 7 Professional (MAC). If you have version 8 (PC) or (MAC) I, now I am speaking for me only, I would read the help file(s) and research on the Internet every where until I found and understood the solution to my challenge.
Experience Every business day I use Enfocus Pitstop, a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat 5 (PC) and Professional 7 (MAC). Without it, there isn't that much that can be done without the hassel of opening the PDF within Adobe Illustrator. Then there are font issues! Education/Credentials Degreed in Industrial Education and Technology, School of Graphic Communications and work in the prepress field everyday as a toubleshooter.
Expert: Glenn Fraller Date: 3/20/2008 Subject: Converting scanned pdf to Excel or MS Word file (editable)
Question I am looking to find out how I would go about coverting a scanned pdf file to an editable MS Word or Excel file using Adobe 6.0 Professional. IS that possible? How?
Answer Any luck with this solution?
Glenn
AllExperts.com
I do not have Acrobat 6, only 7.
So in 7 I scanned a page with text and a line art graphic. Follow me:
FILE >>> CREATE PDF >>> FROM FILE, find the scan (JPG) and opening it.
DOCUMENT>>> RECOGNIZE TEXT USING OCR. Once that process is done, SAVE A>>> Drop Down Menu>>> RICH TEXT FORMAT. Open and clean up in your word processing program.
