Originally Posted by green granite
Adobe acrobat pro allows you to export a pdf as a .txt file which is fully editable but whether it works on old pdf's I've no idea.
Acrobat Reader 6.0 (my favourite) lets you do that too - but only if the original file was text-based. The moment the text itself is image-based (raw scan converted to .pdf) it no longer works.
Originally Posted by taxydual
Would this do it?
PDF Ripper - Convert PDF to Word, PDF to RTF, PDF to HTML, PDF to Text, PDF to TXT
I'll look, but again it sounds very much like it will do only PDFs that are text-based...
I just tried it, no joy...
CJ