[TriLUG] convert pdf to doc

[Brian via TriLUG]

OCR made the document *bigger*??  That's senseless.  Perhaps it retained 
decompressed versions of the images?

On 09/07/2017 04:01 PM, Jeffery Painter via TriLUG wrote:
>
> 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)*
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