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Handling Mixed PDF Files
PDF files often have mixed content: flowing text,
tables and forms. In many cases you can process these
files with the setting Document and receive good
results. For more precise control, your can use page
ranges to separate forms and tables and convert them
separately.
For example, to best unlock a PDF with two pages of
illustrated text, followed by a one-page table you want
to do calculations on, and finally a three-page form –
convert pages 1 and 2 as Document, page 3 as
Spreadsheet and pages 4-6 as Form.
Saving Converted Files
When you use the Open command from the Microsoft
Word File menu for conversion, your document will
display as if it were still the PDF file. You must save it
as a Word document with the command Save As.... If
you use Save or Close without saving, you will lose
either the converted document or the original PDF.
The program warns you of this:
Handling Image-only PDF Files
PDF files without a text layer are a special case for
conversion. You can decide how the program should
handle these pages: convert them with the built-in
Optical Character Recognition (OCR), transfer them
as images to the Word document or skip them.
You can require inspection of the first pages (up to ten)
in PDF files you open. Optionally, you can set conver-
sion to be stopped, if no text-layer pages are detected.
If you have ScanSoft OmniPage Pro, you can use this
to have more control over the recognition process.
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Language Support
When converting a PDF file you classified as a Form,
the following languages are supported: Danish, Dutch,
English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian,
Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.
When converting a PDF file you classified as a Docu-
ment or a Spreadsheet, ScanSoft PDF Converter can
handle over a hundred languages using the Latin
alphabet, including all the above and, for instance,
Catalan, Czech, Hungarian, Indonesian, Polish, Que-
chua, Romanian, Swahili and Turkish.
The program can convert multi-lingual documents. A
full list of supported languages is provided in online
Help.
Web Updates
You can get the latest program updates directly from
the Enable Shortcuts and the About panels of PDF
Converter Assistant. Please ensure that web access is
available.
Un-installation
1.
Select Add/Remove Programs from the Control
Panel.
2.
Select ScanSoft PDF Converter 3.0.
3.
Click Remove to uninstall the program or Change
to auto-repair it.
A de-activation step is performed at the start of un-
installation, allowing you to reinstall the program later
without re-activation problems. De-activation requires
web access.
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