You can make the pdf form fillable using Acrobat. I'm sure other tools as
well, I am just not familiar with them.
Eric

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Mark Jarvis <m.jarvis@cox.net> wrote:

>
> Try http://www.pdftoword.com/. If the file is a true PDF and not an image
> embedded in a PDF file, they will convert it and email the resulting word
> file back to you. The resulting file can be edited in Open Office or
> whatever.
>
> BTW, every so often someone sends me a scanned document embedded in a PDF
> file instead of just sending a JPEG or TIFF file. Why do they do that? I
> have to use Photoshop to convert it to a standard image format so that I can
> run it through OCR.
>
> Mark
>
> Tim Bogart wrote:
>
>  All,
>
>  I have been asked to provide information as part of a job application.
>  In the first part of the process, this was done on the web.  Now in this
> next phase, I have been asked to provide information by filling out forms.
>  They would prefer to have an electronic version of this data.
>  Unfortunately, they have sent me a document in .PDF file format.  As we all
> have known for 20 years or more, these files are normally set to disallow
> editing, as this one is.  I'm familiar with pdf2txt and the rest of the
> manual tools.  I could go to the local service bureau and print out twenty
> of them, but I don't want to spend three days doing this.  Open office
> doesn't seem to be able to open a pdf formatted file.  Does anybody know of
> a free (as in beer or freedom) application that runs on windoze that will
> allow me to edit this file?  I tried something called "Foxit" but it doesn't
> work as advertised.  You can't edit text with it.  It acts simply as a
> viewer.  Does anybody have personal experience with something that's free
> that actually works?
>
>  TIA,
>
>  -- Tim B.
>
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