.pdf to .doc

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This is probably easy to find, but i struggled. I came across a few pdf to doc converters for mac, but they are all trials or want you to pay. I am yet to find a decent free pdf to doc converter. Is there really no application out there which is free and can do this for mac?

I have a lot of PDFs here so would like something which can convert all of them and not just...say 10, pdfs before the trial runs out.

And yes this is for mac, which is why i am struggling.
 
I was fairly sure what you're asking is not possible and no such app is available. It is possible to slightly edit pdf's, make small changes to text for example, but it doesn't work well. Really the original file from which the pdf was created is needed to edit it.
 
Are the PDF's protected? PDF's are a very good way to protect published documents from being edited by the unqualified...
 
Um, im not sure if they are protected. No passwords are asked for if thats what you mean. Basically its for my mum who is a teacher. It would make her job a lot easier if she could just edit the document in an easy way to do reports.
 
Even acrobat can't really edit pdf's, unless it has the original file from which it was created. As for creating .doc files, i don't think it's possible.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
I maybe wrong, but .pdf is a printable image that's irriversable.
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No, it's a development of PostScript which is a page description language originally used in publishing.

Properly formatted PDFs contain vector graphics, scalable (embedded fonts) and layout information. That said I've had PDFs sent to me at work which were basically bitmaps (and consequently very large).
 
Open the PDF in Preview and press command+A (this selects all text in the PDF). Then press command+C to copy the text to the clipboard, finally go to a blank word document and paste it (command+V). You may need to do some minor corrections (remove some extra spaces etc if the PDF you had was rather complicated).

I can do this on leopard, I think it should work for tiger too...
 
zeta101 said:
Open the PDF in Preview and press command+A (this selects all text in the PDF). Then press command+C to copy the text to the clipboard, finally go to a blank word document and paste it (command+V). You may need to do some minor corrections (remove some extra spaces etc if the PDF you had was rather complicated).

I can do this on leopard, I think it should work for tiger too...
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Won't work if the pdf is protected.
 
Oh, was interested whether it was feasible or not. Have you exported pdf's to doc successfully previously?
 
Yeah, a number of times with varying success. If the .pdf is pretty basic (not LOADS of formatting etc) then it works very well: pictures, tables, formatting (generally) goes across quite nicely.
 
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