How to convert PDF image file to text

sarah_id1

I have lots of PDF image file which have text and image. I wanted to convert them to text pdf file where image would remain as image. I tried some online source but they dont accept big files like a GB.

Any one who knows the best way to convert these!

Bollotom

Have a look at some of these.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-pdf-tools.htm

And this is the home page for lots of free software.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/

Alias_Omega

MS Word can go from a .doc to .pdf, so I cant see why it cant go .pdf to .doc

Weird_Nev

highlight the text and CTRL-V (copy it)
Open a word document and click edit>paste>paste special and select "paste as text"

Then hit "printscreen" with your PrntScr button and the whole image you need showing. Paste this into a word and crop it down so it's just the image, or else open it in paint or similar and crop to size, then save it as a file and insert into your new word document.

lammy82

You won't be able to simply copy and paste the text, if the PDFs are entirely image-based to begin with.

You could try using a tool like this to perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on the source PDF: http://www.paperfile.net/

You would probably then need to 'reconstruct' the document using MS Word or similar, basically following the second paragraph of Weird Nev's suggestion.

Finally you can save the document as a PDF file type to get what you wanted, a PDF which contains text and images instead of just one big image.

There may be other solutions out there which attempt to do the whole thing in one step, but I assume you might want to do some manual checking of the text before saving it back to a PDF, so this method would allow you to do that.

lammy82

Alias_Omega wrote: »

MS Word can go from a .doc to .pdf, so I cant see why it cant go .pdf to .doc

Unfortunately it's a completely different process. Especially when the source PDF doesn't actually contain text but merely 'pictures of text'. You can embed a PDF as an image in a Word document but that's not quite the same.

Owain_Moneysaver

if OCR won't do it, send the files to a typist in India.

giraffe69

If you have Office 2013 it converts a pdf to Word. Not perfect but fairly good.

forgotmyname

Will if covert text in a photo to plain text though?