Importing Multiple Page PDFs into a Word doc

[Neeraj Jain]

I have used
Solidpdf. Like NitroPdf, it is also an excellent tool for converting pdf to word. I guess that it also allows import of multiple pdfs into a single Word doc. 

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From: Helen Borrie <helebor at iinet.net.au>
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Tue, 12 January, 2010 7:29:18 AM
Subject: Re: Importing Multiple Page PDFs into a Word doc

At 10:17 AM 12/01/2010, jopakent wrote:
>I'm trying to crack an old nut again. I've got a Word doc into which I want
>to import many PDF documents. The issue is that most of these documents are
>multiple page PDFs.  When I import (as object, from file) one of the PDFs
>into the Word doc, only the first page displays. 
>
>In the past, I've created separate PDFs of each page of the multiple page
>PDF and imported them into the Word doc in sequence. I'm trying to see if
>there might be a better workflow for this.
>
>Jeremy, I cc'd you on this because I'm wondering if MIF2Go might be an
>option. I know it does wonders rendering RTFs of Frame files; I'm wondering
>if there is a way to use it to produce accurate RTFs from PDFs. I've got
>Acrobat 9 Standard and when I use it to create an RTF of one of these files,
>the result is not pretty. The result can be cleaned up, but it will just
>take to long per page to clean it up. It would be faster to just import each
>PDF page separately.
>
>Another benefit to importing RTF's is that my footers would stay accurate.
>(That is, I'll keep my page x of y and so forth).
>
>I know there are other PDF converters out there, maybe that's the route I
>should pursue.

I returned Acrobat 8 Pro to the reseller because Adobe refused to fix it when the licensing got broken by one of their infamous updates.  I got my money back, and reinvested a *portion* of it in a product called NitroPDF.  My bad Adobe experience turned out to be a blessing in disguise.  NitroPDF is just fantastic.  One of the fantastic things it does is convert PDFs to both RTF and Word, to documents that exactly replicate what you had in the PDF, *including* proper paragraphs.

The pagination, per se, is identical, but it *does not* back-engineer the pagination formula.  It places a single curly bracket in the position where the page number was.  I have only used it with PDFs that were originally created from DocBook sources using the standard Saxon transformation, of which I am a consumer, not a developer.  As Jeremy suggested, you might get a more source-sensitive reconstruction of the page-numbering algorithm if your PDFs were originally created from the same Word or RTF templates. 

The PDFs I've converted have been typically around 100-200 pages;  but you can convert page selections in batch according to taste as well;  and your Word output options allow selecting conversion levels from "highly editable" to purely layout based.

I do HIGHLY recommend NitroPDF (http://www.nitropdf.com) for any tricks you need to do with PDFs (besides reading and editing them, of course!)  There's a trial version you can download and use for a month (I think).  I didn't need a month, though, nor even a week or a day.  It took me about half an hour to test, convince myself I wasn't dreaming, decide, buy the licence and install permanently.  It took much more time and effort, plus additional system cleaning software purchases, to uninstall and eliminate Acrobat Pro 8, alas!  Six months on I don't miss Acrobat Pro even slightly.  

Helen

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