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Topic Title: How do I import a PDF?
Topic Summary: PDF Documents in Doors
Created On: 8-Feb-2007 19:16
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Answer This question was answered by ron lewis, on Friday, February 9, 2007 6:38 PM

Answer:
There are applications on the market that will convert PDF to either RTF or word format.

There are two types: those that state they make a identical looking copy -- but these use text boxes which are incompatible with DOORS.

The other type use free flowing text and for all but the simplest PDF file require a great amount of post processing to provide a look alike copy of the original which can be imported into doors.

Note: Older version of Adobe Acrobat converted to word using free flowing text. Later versions switched to using text boxes. The switch occurred after Adobe 6.0.
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Tracy Monteith

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How do I import a PDF Document into doors?  What I want is to have it import much like an RTF where I can link to various paragraphs and headings?

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ron lewis

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Answer Answer
There are applications on the market that will convert PDF to either RTF or word format.

There are two types: those that state they make a identical looking copy -- but these use text boxes which are incompatible with DOORS.

The other type use free flowing text and for all but the simplest PDF file require a great amount of post processing to provide a look alike copy of the original which can be imported into doors.

Note: Older version of Adobe Acrobat converted to word using free flowing text. Later versions switched to using text boxes. The switch occurred after Adobe 6.0.

Edited: 29-Jul-2008 at 13:31 by ron lewis
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Tracy Monteith

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Links to a couple of these tools? Is there one that's preferred?
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ron lewis

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For a simple free test -- send a small pdf attachemt to: pdf2html@adobe.com

You will get back a html file which you can copy and paste into word.

Edited: 9-Feb-2007 at 13:08 by ron lewis
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David Pechacek

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Are there any that will just get the text from a PDF without any headers and footers?  I don't care if it looks like the original file, I just need the data so I can possibly do some processing on it to get the information I want.  

Are there any programming references you know of to read a PDF and get the text from it?

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ron lewis

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Adobe reader will save to text.

Of course that is assuming it is not password protected

or send pdf as attachment to pdf2txt@adobe.com.

Edited: 29-Jul-2008 at 13:27 by ron lewis
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Kevin Murphy

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One of my users pointed me to an older piece of software called PDF Converter by ScanSoft. This did a better job of converting a PDF to a Word Doc than Acrobat did.

A tip though--Acrobat tends to put text into text boxes upon RTF conversion. When Acrobat is done, open the RTF in Word and press Control-A to select all ad then Control-Q. No more text boxes!

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