PDF is essentially an image file (or something closer to image than text.),
is it not? Is there a way to import a PDF file into Word (and ultimately
automatically using VBA).

I have a PDF >> Word converter which does a sort-of OCR scan, but that's not
what I want. It is perfectly okay if the text is an image, and not real
(editable) text.

Thanks,

Ed

Re: Importing PDF as image by Jezebel

Jezebel
Sat May 27 17:21:23 CDT 2006

You can simply embed the PDF as an object -- it works the same as for other
image file format. But be aware that you can end up with a *huge* Word file.
Test it before you go very far -- you can easily end up with a file that's
too large to email.



"Ed" <ed@pathagoras.com> wrote in message
news:SR2eg.23918$ZW3.16487@dukeread04...
> PDF is essentially an image file (or something closer to image than
> text.), is it not? Is there a way to import a PDF file into Word (and
> ultimately automatically using VBA).
>
> I have a PDF >> Word converter which does a sort-of OCR scan, but that's
> not what I want. It is perfectly okay if the text is an image, and not
> real (editable) text.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed
>



Re: Importing PDF as image by Graham

Graham
Sun May 28 00:45:19 CDT 2006

But if you want the object to be viewable as an image, you have to use
Acrobat 7 reader and even then objects cannot span pages, so you will only
see the first page? Another possibility is to convert the PDF to image (or
images) using e.g. SnagIt 8 (www.techsmith.com) which has a 'printer driver'
that will output any application to virtually any graphics format. You can
them import the images just like any other. There is a demo of SnagIt that
you can try.

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Jezebel wrote:
> You can simply embed the PDF as an object -- it works the same as for
> other image file format. But be aware that you can end up with a
> *huge* Word file. Test it before you go very far -- you can easily
> end up with a file that's too large to email.
>
>
>
> "Ed" <ed@pathagoras.com> wrote in message
> news:SR2eg.23918$ZW3.16487@dukeread04...
>> PDF is essentially an image file (or something closer to image than
>> text.), is it not? Is there a way to import a PDF file into Word (and
>> ultimately automatically using VBA).
>>
>> I have a PDF >> Word converter which does a sort-of OCR scan, but
>> that's not what I want. It is perfectly okay if the text is an
>> image, and not real (editable) text.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ed