[Blindmath] Extracting bitmap images from pdf files

[Richard Baldwin]

Hi Pranav,

Thanks for the information. However, this might be a "solution of last
resort" for us because both Amanda and I tend to stay as far away from MS
Word as possible. Fortunately, when people send docx files to me, as they
often do, I can read them in the Google viewer. I don't have anything on my
computer that will read docx files and I doubt that Amanda has anything on
her computer that will read them either.

However, it sounds like it might work without the requirement to actually
use MS Word by dealing strictly with the files and opening the docx file in
WinZip. There are dozens of sites that claim to convert pdf files to word
files, so I will take a look at some of them and give it a shot.

Dick Baldwin

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Pranav Lal <pranav.lal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> I have not tried this but:
> 1. Convert the pdf file to Microsoft Word docX format.
> 2. Unzip the docX file.
> 3. You get all the images in one of the folders in the resulting docX
> expansion.
> Note:
> The docX file behaves like a zip archive so rename to a *.zip and then
> extract it.
>
> Finally, for PDF to word conversion, I use a paid program called Abbyy PDF
> transformer.
>
> Send me some of the files you need to convert and I would be happy to try
> the above approach.
> Pranav
>
>
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