What are the best programs for spliiting PDFs or converting them to other documents?

I don't have Microsoft Word.

I have seen a lot of these programs are expensive shareware.

 

Re: What are the best programs for spliiting PDFs or converting them to other documen

Actually I'm really interested in editing rather than splitting PDFs.

 

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You can try PDFEdit from Sourceforge.

 

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conceptualclarity...

LibreOffice will allow you to edit .pdfs. Right click the .pdf and select "Open With" then in the Program Files\LibreOffice 4.0\Programs folder select soffice. Once open the .pdf can be edited. The "Save As" dialog gives only the choice to save as an .odg file, but there is a feature on the File menu to export as a .pdf. I used it to see how it works, and it works great.

Someone on the LibreOffice board could probably enlighten you on converting to a word processor type document...

 

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I have opened up a PDF with PDFEdit. It shows a window saying "Pdf id linerized." It asks "Should it be delinerized?" I don't even know what that means. It's not at Dictionary.com.

 

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The best way to learn what things like this do to a PDF is to experiment.

Make a copy of the PDF you wish to edit, keeping the original in reserve.

Edit it linerized and save it. Examine it. Size, different attributes. Appearance overall. Then make another copy and edit unlinerized.

I say this because:

A) You'll learn by doing.

B) Different PDFs will come out, well different. Based on what the contents are, i.e. embedded graphics of several different types, the presence of OCR, original margin settings and other things...

This way you can see what the setting produces, and if it is what you want/like, keep it. If not to your taste, dump it...

I use Foxit PDF Editor v2.1.0. Old (2009) but reliable. It was around $40, I think their current offerings are in the ~ $100 range now. If this is for professional work, I would invest in a paid solution for support and extra features. Many free PDF editors are somewhat limited compared to their paid for cousins...
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Thanks for the advice. It's just for my own use, not for professional work.

Still, I'd like to know what linerized and delinerized mean.

Also, what is OCR?

 

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Ever heard of Google? OCR is Optical Character Recognition. It tries to convert pictures of or containing text into editable text. Such programs often have problems with the document layout but can be quite useful all the same.

 

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This should help explain what PDF linearization means and why it's used.