[Tugindia] Adobe Acrobat to convert from pdflatex's pdf into Microsoft word?

Kannan Moudgalya kannan at iitb.ac.in
Mon Feb 1 18:32:50 CET 2010


Roopakshi Pathania wrote:
>> I tried to take an ordinary (un-complex) pdf file produced using
>> pdflatex, and feed it to Adobe Acrobat, and save as M S Word. The
>> results are simply horrible. Am I missing something or is this route
>> hopeless?
>>     
> There is also InftyReader.
> http://www.sciaccess.net/en/InftyReader/index.html
> It is an application that performs OCR on scientific documents. You can choose PDF as the input, and Word 2007 as the output. The Math part is usually quite accurate. 
>   
The InftyReader seems to be an interesting one, although, costing Rs. 
45,000 per copy (for two computers).

The other simple option seems to be a copy and paste.  I have done this 
most of the time.  It is time consuming, but a fool-proof one.

Kannan


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