>This is probably either very easy or nearly impossible, not sure which. I have a complex PDF form I want to get into Word (preferably) or even any other common medium so that the form can be edited and saved in some common format. Given the complexity of format, I can only think of Word to convert to. Any ideas, short of an OCR scan?

This is from Adobe FAQ.

Q:. How do I convert PDF to Word, Excell, WordPerfect, or any other word processing program that has been developed in the last twenty years.

Answer: Basically, you don't. PDF was developed to be a final format, a type of virtual printing, that the average user can not make changes to or plagiarize from. That is the way it was designed. There are, of course, a multitude of companies taking advantage of this feature by writing programs that will, in fact, extract the data from a PDF document and convert it into a word processor or spread sheet useable form. NOTE: These programs are not cheap. Most cost more than Acrobat itself.

These programs can be identified, and usually purchased, from the Adobe Third Party Software section of the Adobe Book Store, which can be accessed by clicking on the appropriate button in the black bar at the top of this page. You can also find them listed at PDF-related sites such as http://www.PDFZone.com and http://www.acrobuddies.com.

Of course, you can use cut and paste to extract data and graphics from a PDF document, but you lose all the formatting in the text and the graphics will become very grainy. Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator will also open some, but perhaps not all, PDF documents for editing, but again, results may be less than acceptable.

Mark