Converting PDFs to Word

The New York Times has this article on a $50 product that allows you to convert a PDF document into a Word file. Two observations: (1) it won't work on "imaged" PDF files, only on PDF files that have been created from a text based source; and (2) the most recent version of Acrobat, version 6.0, does this conversion pretty well. So the only reason to get the ScanSoft product would be if you need to convert text-based PDFs to Word and you don't have Acrobat 6.0.

I should mention that version 6.0 of Acrobat is very quick with converting image files from other formats (e.g. TIFFs) to PDFs, but that's a subject for another post.

Comments

[jaye hubbard]

I have read with interest that you have managed to convert pdf files into word, I have been trying to do this and I am still unsuccessful, can you assist?

Many thanks