About Justin VanAlstyne Expertise I have a full working knowledge of Adobe Acrobat 5.0 - 7.01. I have experience in creating interactive PDFs, embedding multimedia, web-based forms, creating presentations using PDF, advanced prepress preparation, PDF web optimization, color management, and using PDF as a soft-proofing tool. I do not have a lot of experience using Acrobat`s advanced Javascripting features, though a lot of custom functionality can be built into a PDF this way.
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Expert: Justin VanAlstyne Date: 10/27/2004 Subject: Going from PDFs to other programs
Question I bought a technical book that had a CD-ROM included as a bonus. There are a bunch of files in .pdf format on the disk. They are all formatted differently, some are like Word documents and others are like drawings. I have Adobe Acrobat available at work, can you tell me the process for converting these into something useful for myself? For the items that are like big "A3" items that look almost scanned what can I do with those?
Answer David-
I may be able to help you, but I'm not sure what you consider "useful" for you. What are you looking to do with the PDFs beyond how they are now?
The scanned documents that are just basically images of the pages... you pretty much out of luck in doing much with them. There are methods you can use to get Acrobat to try and OCR (interpret the text) the text portions. But if the files are just for occaisional reference, I wouldn't waste any time doing much with them. Just view them when you need them on your computer, or print out a few pages here and there.
