In addition to the Redwing application from Monarch, Ambia Corporation has a
competing product called "Aerial".

You can reach their site on the web at:

http://www.ambia.com/

They offer a 30 day evaluation demo for download.

Both of these products mention that they are aimed at the text conversion
aspect of PDF files. I haven't had any success in finding a simple method
to extract large amounts of illustrations or graphics from a .PDF doc.

I haven't used either of these products. But I will be downloading the
Aerial demo and experimenting with it this week. The site information
indicates Aerial will extract to .RTF (which generally imports well to MS
Word), and the Redwing version mentions it is optimized for use with
their Monarch data extraction and reporting tool. Don't know how that
relates to Word Processing.

One final consideration is the price... Aerial lists for under $50, and
Redwing for closer to $700.


ERNIE
eshumaker@grci.com
eesiv@usa.net



> -----Original Message-----
>
> Randy,
>
> I never did that. But I heard of a software called Redwing
> (http://www.datawatch.com) which can transform PDF files into Word
> documents.
>
> Erwin
>
>
> Heath, Randy wrote:
>
> > Hi all - Have a doozy of a problem.

<snip>

> > So we need to get back to MS Word docs from PDF files, which I have on
> > CD ROM.
> >
> > What's the best way (is there a way?) to convert from PDF to MS Word?
> > Does anyone have any tips on this? Is it easier to go from PDF to Word
> > somehow or to use a scanner to OCR the hardcopy?
> >
> > What about graphics? Is there any way to extract graphics from PDF files
> >
> > in some usable form that I could then drop back into Word documents?
> >
> > Thanks -
> > Randy
> >
> > Randy.Heath@hotmail.com
> >
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