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Changing_PDF_to_word
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September 29, 2014
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Why are their weird characters in my converted file?

  • September 29, 2014
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I went to change a PDF report to words and on the sheet - front page at top right hand corner is printed C$JO - what is this???? The date of my report was changed from July 28th, 2014 to July 2sth, 2014. what gives?

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    Sara_Forsberg
    Inspiring
    September 29, 2014

    Hi Changing PDF to word,

    It sounds like there may have been some font substitution when the PDF was converted to Word format. Do you know how the PDF was created? If it wasn't created from a scanned document, you may have better luck with the conversion if OCR is disabled as outlined in this document: How to disable Optical Character Recognition (O... | Adobe Community

    Please let us know how it goes.

    Best,

    Sara

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