>>Anything really cheap, or free, that will save a PDF to Word easily, or allow annotations? Found one that costs $49, but hoping for something even less: http://www.solidpdf.com/features.htm Thanks!
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>PDF to Word is always going to be tough. PDF is not a "text" format. A PDF is a picture, just like JPG or GIF. It is not made up of words. It is made up of vector graphics that render properly at any resolution.
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>Converting a picture to text is ... ummmm ... OCR. I've yet to see an OCR package that's more accurate/cost-effective than paying a typist if there's even a LITTLE formatting involved. Of course, that all depends on the quality of the incoming PDF.
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>The Word MVPs generally recommend the typist route because they've all been tasked with cleaning up the result of OCR.
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>PDF is great as a write-only file format. <g>

Not entirely true, a properly made PDF contains text as ASCII.