[TriLUG] convert pdf to doc

[Jeffery Painter via TriLUG]

Just a heads up.

If your PDF is a collection of images rather than real text, I just 
installed pdfocr and it worked wonderfully!  Our HOA bylaws were scans 
of docs and not searchable - in a few minutes, it had converted the 60 
page document into a search friendly PDF (however it exploded the size 
from 2.5mb to about 60mb). YMMV

https://github.com/gkovacs/pdfocr

--
Jeff


On 09/06/2017 02:18 PM, David Burton via TriLUG wrote:
> The latest Kingsoft WPS Office
> <http://www.kingsoftstore.com/software/kingsoft-office-freeware> Writer
> (self-identifies at v. 10.2.0.5934) supports PDF-to-DOC file conversion. I
> just tried it on a .pdf file, and the .doc conversion looks just about
> perfect.
>
> Caveat #1:  I only tried it on one file.
>
> Caveat #2:  WPS Office has the very obnoxious habit of seizing control of
> .pdf files (and perhaps MS Office files), repeatedly making itself the
> default Windows application for opening such files. See the forwarded email
> & annotated screenshot, below, for how to disable that.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> ---------- Begin forwarded message ----------
> From: David Burton
> Date: Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 5:53 AM
> Subject: How to stop Kingsoft Writer from changing Windows file association
> for PDF files
> To: Kingsoft <officesupport at kingsoft.com>
>
>
> Dear Kingsoft folks,
>
>
> Kingsoft WPS Office is a very fine tool, and I am quite impressed with your
> many improvements. In particular, I very much prefer the ads which the free
> version now has, to the horrible printing "watermarks" which it used to
> have!
>
> But I have encountered a problem in the latest version, which is very
> annoying. The problem is that, even after I manually change the default
> file association for .pdf files to Adobe Reader, WPS Office changes the
> default file association for .pd files from "Adobe Reader" to "WPS Writer."
>
> That is very undesirable and unfriendly behavior! That should not happen by
> default!
>
> I google-searched
> <https://www.google.com/search?q=How+to+stop+Kingsoft+Writer+from+changing+Windows+file+association+for+PDF+files&btnG=Search>
> and
> found an article
> <http://www.binarynow.com/office-suite/change-kingsoft-office-default-file-association-file-formats-to-microsoft-office-doc-rtf-xls-and-ppt/>
> about
> using "Kingsoft Office Configuration Tool" (now called WPS Office
> Configuration Tool) to change the file associations. So I think that will
> stop this bad behavior by WPS Writer.
>
> But the behavior should never happen, anyhow. Kingsoft Office should never
> make itself the default application for handling another program's native
> files without first obtaining the permission of the user. For .pdf files,
> the native programs are Adobe's Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. For .doc and
> .docx files, the native programs are Microsoft Word and Word Viewer. Etc.
>
> Will you please fix WPS Office to never seize another program's file
> associations without first obtaining the user's permission to do so?
> *...[snip]*
> ---------- End forwarded message ----------
>
>
> http://www.geeksalive.com/kingsoft_wps_settings_fix1.png
> <http://www.geeksalive.com/kingsoft_wps_settings_fix1.png>
>
> *(click for bigger version)*