>>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.
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>Yes, MSDN has a list of 3rd-party vendors too, and none are freeware, of course. The stupid thing is that these are standard government personnel forms in PDF, and there's no earthly reason they should be proprietary to gov't employees. We're supposed to be moving away from hardcopies and typewriters.
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>>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.
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>This form is way to complex for that - tried it with pitiful results.
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>I'm going to try a fancy new OCR I have at home tonight on a hardcopy. It's done an astounding job converting say, a magazine page into a Word text & graphics DOC, with most of the page being editable afterward, and all of it looking beautiful. Of course that SW wasn't cheap either, but I've already paid for it, at least.
I think OCR it's a way to go.
Mark