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Heinrich Pesch
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Apr 21, 2008

I wonder what software is available for conversion of pdfs to editable format for translation. And how expensive this software would be.
Thanks!
Heinrich
 
Sabine Winter
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The world of Adobe Apr 21, 2008

You can check http://www.adobe.com for all types of software and web based versions for working with pdfs and respective pricing.
 
Heinrich Pesch
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No adobe Apr 21, 2008

What I mean is scanning software like Abbyy Finereader or other ocr-programs and cheap viewer-editing software for pdf.

I need to figure out what would be the real costs of switching to Apple in additions to the more expensive hardware.
 
Aleks Zakrewski
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Readiris Pro and VueScan Apr 21, 2008

Heinrich
you can try Readiris Pro and VueScan (ocr software for Mac)


Good lack
 
Jean-François Pineau
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PDF2Office Apr 21, 2008

http://www.recosoft.com/products/pdf2office/macintosh/integration.htm
 
Heinrich Pesch
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And how much to pay? Apr 21, 2008

How much did you pay for your pdf-software?
 
Dragomir Kovacevic
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why not free Wf's PlusTools? Apr 21, 2008

As you know already, it is an unrealistic attempt to try to reconstruct a pdf file backwards. In case you use Ms Word on Mac, then you might install a free companion of Wordfast: PlusTools, and convert quite nicely a pdf file into a good doc, rtf, even formatted from the point of font calibration, no images. D.

Heinrich Pesch wrote:

I wonder what software is available for conversion of pdfs to editable format for translation. And how expensive this software would be.
Thanks!
Heinrich


 
Fernando Toledo
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Use what you alredy have May 16, 2008

Open Windows in the Mac as a application more, that's all.

I use VMware. All my Windows applications and Dics (if needed) are running at the same time with Mac OSX Leopard.

It run better and faster!
For example, I hear music in Mac and use Dragon NS at the same time in "Windows" NO problem.

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Open Windows in the Mac as a application more, that's all.

I use VMware. All my Windows applications and Dics (if needed) are running at the same time with Mac OSX Leopard.

It run better and faster!
For example, I hear music in Mac and use Dragon NS at the same time in "Windows" NO problem.

PDFs in a Mac:


http://www.apple.com/business/theater/#tutorial=manipulatingpdfs ▲ Collapse
 
Marie-Andree Dionne
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Paste into Word Jun 9, 2008

Hi,

I regularly receive double-column pdfs and I simply select, copy and paste into Word. Then it's just a matter of removing end-of-lines but that can be done easily.

Once in a while, the pdf has been coded in such a way that this method doesn't work and I have to copy and paste paragraph by paragraph (but remember those are two-column documents.

Hope this helps.

Marie-Andree
 


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