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bowanad
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September 15, 2014
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copy and paste after converting pdf to word

  • September 15, 2014
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I need to convert PDF to word so I can then copy and past section of the converted doc to another word doc. I'm downloading Acrobat Pro's trial offer. Will I be able to do this

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    Sara_Forsberg
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    September 15, 2014

    Hi bowanad,

    You absolutely will! To convert your document, choose File > Save as Other > Microsoft Word > Word Document. Make sure that the correct language is selected for optical character recognition (click Settings in the bottom-right corner of the Save As dialog box to see the language selected for OCR).

    Please let us know how it goes.

    Best,

    Sara

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    bowanadAuthor
    Participant
    September 15, 2014

    Guess I'm doing something wrong, the document comes as a "picture". I need it as a regular word dock to copy and paste certain paragraphs to another word doc.

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    Sara_Forsberg
    Inspiring
    September 15, 2014

    I don't think you're doing anything wrong. Try placing your cursor in the text block you want to edit and triple-clicking. It can sometimes be tricky to select text in converted documents.

    If that doesn't work, it's possible that OCR wasn't enabled when you converted the file. If not, image text (such as text in a PDF created from a scanned document), won't be converted to selectable/editable text. Click Settings in the bottom of the Save As dialog box when you save as Word format, and make sure that Run OCR if Needed is selected.

    Please let us know how it goes.


    Best,

    Sara

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