>>>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>
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>IIRC, PDF is actually a repackaged PostScript. Now if you have something that can unpack it (and my suggestion to use OpenOffice was wrong, I misread "save a PDF to Word" as "save to PDF or Word"), you got yourself a .ps (or .eps) file which may somehow be used.

I am aware that there is an open source converter that will read .PS and convert to .PDF but I'm not sure .PS is a requirement for creating .PDF.

Dan