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convert pdf file to MS Word document

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james1127

james1127

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Jan 28, 2005
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Is there any way for Acrobat to convert pdf file which was scanned as image (not as a text) to MS Word document?
 
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Unlikely - as that scanned text is an image. You need OCR (optical character recognition) software. Some scanners provide basic OCR.
 
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