Adobe Acrobat

[TEAK36]

I have Adobe acrobat reader 6,but I would like to be able to edit some text.Is it possible to copy a PDF document and then save it as an Excel or  Word Document?

[Ralph]

There is a text select tool in Acrobat Reader, it's on the main toolbar at the top. There are some limitations with it, but it works OK. You can copy / paste the selected text.

If the text is in two columns in the pdf file, the text select tool selects line 1 of column 1, then line 1 of column 2, rendering whatever you paste fairly useless!

With Excel also, if there is a blank cell in a column, it'll paste nothing for that cell, so moving everything to the right one cell over, but only for that line. As long as the amounts of data you're pasting aren't too big, you can paste to Notepad, do a bit of formatting, then save as a text file. When you open the txt file in Excel and choose your separator, it shouldn't be too bad.

[TEAK36]

Ralph,thanks for your reply.I have just loaded the full version of Adobe 6,and although it allows you to save the document to different formats like word or rich text, I cant seem to edit any of them.All I want to do is to remove a line of text and replace it with different text.I thought it would have been standard in the full version.

[Sligachan14]

Adobe Reader is just that - it allows you to read .PDF files. To edit them, you need the full version which costs mega dosh.

There are freeware versions of PFD editors on the internet but I've no idea how efficient they are.

[Ralph]

Hi TEAK36, if you've got the full version of Acrobat, it should be fairly easy. I've only got v5 here but I doubt if it's changed much. On the main toolbar, there's a button with a blocky hollow T on it. If you hover over it it says that it's the TouchUp Text Tool. You'll also activate it by pressing T. With this, you should be able to edit the line of text from within Acrobat and then save it.
Also, the column select tool in the full version means that almost everything in my first post is rubbish!

[Didwot]

Type

PDF to Text

into Google, and take your pick of hte available convertors

[monicajvis]

Yes you can convert you pdf, just click http://www.onlinedocumentconversion.com/ upload, convert to rtf & then edit in MS Word.