Converting from PDF to Word (or Frame, or anything)

[John Posada]

Art..i tried Word, RTF, xml, notepad. I tried copying a section and pasting
into notepad. All give me font substitution. Im next going to try our
office OCR.
On Jul 3, 2013 8:13 AM, "Art Campbell" <art.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think you're on the right track assuming a font is missing, but it
> could also be that the language code was set incorrectly or was
> corrupted.
>
> In Acrobat, you should be able to select a text segment of the
> rectangles and check its properties to see what font is missing, so
> you could possibly add it.
>
> When you convert, you're doing a SaveAs from Acrobat? Have you tried
> saving as text to see if you can capture the missing characters as
> something useful instead of trying to capture both text and
> formatting?
>
>
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> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Stuart Rogers
> <srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com> wrote:
> > On 2013-Jul-02 1:53 PM, John Posada wrote:
> >
> > Hi, guys...
> >
> > I was given three PDF files that I need to edit and put into Frame. Two
> of
> > the PDfs converted fine,
> >
> > The third PDF, when converted, alot of the text converts to squares. I
> > assume it is because of a font that is not on my machine.
> >
> > It doesn't matter if I convert to Word, RTF, or XML. In fact, when I
> copy a
> > piece of text to clipboard and paste into Notepad, I still get the
> squares.
> >
> > So...is there a way during conversion to map a particular font to another
> > font? This is confidential stuff, so I can't let it out of my system.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > You could try printing the file to the Acrobat printer instance as an
> image
> > (Advanced print properties) and then using either Acrobat or OneNote to
> > perform OCR.  OneNote does that automatically when you add a file to a
> > notebook.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
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