Transforming a pdf into a Word document on a Mac

[duchesse]

I have a document in to translate that has many maps and graphs in it. I can do a screen grab of each individual image (they are not clickable), but was wondering if it was possible to open a pdf up as a Word document on my macbook and simply cut and paste the maps.

If it's possible, would anybody be able to explain it in one syllable words to this technophobe, please? Would be very very grateful.

does anybody know how, pleeeeease?

Never done it personally (and use Pages on the Mac anyway) but do these help?

Simple PDF to Word on Mac OS X

converting pdf to word

Personally though, I'd open in preview, do a screen grab and faff in photoshop - probably not the simplest method though

There should be pdf editors out there for mac os x though, which will make life easier for you. Just not sure if you'll have to pay for them or not.

Sobernow - that's not the issue - duchesse needs to do it the other way around - convert pdf to word.

There's pdf2office - but it costs £30

you can get a limited time trial - how much it'll let you do though, I'm not sure

Sober- I tried that but all I got was 528 pages of encoding and gibberish...

Wow, Rubberduck- that seems to be exactly what I need! And at £30 it might actually be money well spent as it would save me many many hours of doing screen grabs by hand. Have you actually used the paid version? Do you think it would handle large documents with many different embedded objects (this document has maps, tables, graphs, boxes, etc...)?

And re your second comment, Rd- doing screen grabs is sort of what I was resigning myself to, except that some of the maps have bits of text that need translating...

I haven't actually used it no - but probably worth using the trial version and seeing if it does what you need it to do? Does sound like it'll save you a huge amount of time.

The other thing you might try (but not sure of the cost) is to get adobe acrobat (the purchased version which gives you editing ability). However, I think the cheapest version is still more expensive than £30... I guess it depends how often you may need to do this as to whether it's worth your while.

Actually forget that - just looked at adobe acrobat standard and it's well into the three figures

How did it go, duchesse?

Haven't done it yet, Rubbery. Am still head in sand about it. Document has to to be finished for 29th. I think I might just do screen grabs for this document, and consider the long term wisdom of buying that software you recommended. Thank you!

Hehehe... no worries, was just curious as to whether the software was any good for what you wanted. Just in case I ever needed it one day