Saving Adobe .pdf file problem

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Reggie

I don't like working with .pdf files because I know nothing about them. I
have been sent a .pdf file that is 6 mb in size. I am trying to save it as a
text file using the Adobe Reader 7 command series of File, Save as Text.
When I go to the saved file there is no text in it.

I checked the file properties and can find no evidence that the file is
"locked' or in any other way set to prevent copying. I need some
suggestions on how to save the darn thing as a text file.

Thanks
 
You might want to ask in a newsgroup about Adobe Acrobat. This one is about
Microsoft Word.
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Most Word users don't have Acrobat, but even if they did, that's not an
excuse for asking an Acrobat question in a Word NG.

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File > Save as Text, (even Acrobat Reader can do it). If yours
doesn't, then you need an upgrade.

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Depends, starting with a 6Mb file, my guess is we are dealing with images,
not text, even if an image of text. I just double checked and if the pdf
starts with image files, Adobe reader does not do OCR to change it to text.
Again, not a Word question.
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They also use automobiles, lawnmowers and bicycles. ... and your point is?
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Not necessarily - if the PDF was created from graphics files with the
appearance of text then you will need OCR to convert the content to text.
 
Boy, that's sure not playing fair if the .pdf text is really an image!
;) Somebody *really* wanted to protect that doc.

Scanning an Adobe ng for information (I have lots of newbie type Adobe
questions at this point), I found a pointer to this program: PDF2Word
(pdf to word) http://www.verypdf.com/pdf2word/index.html Export text,
images and other contents from PDF document into word document. Sounds
like that's what he needs.

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It's likely not an issue of protection but of the way the PDF was created.
Many scanners claim they can scan to PDF, but the PDF files they create are
just images, one for each page.

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PDF2Word is quite good, though tends to screw up formatting, but the ability
to easily grab the content is a plus.
 
To add to the discussion—
I suspect that a file of that size was scanned to a pdf. In that case, no
converter will create a text file.
 
Not necessarily - the PDF2Word converter mentioned earlier in this thread
will convert text from a graphical format in a PDF

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