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When it comes  to editing PDF I am a novice. Never e3ver done it.

Here is what I am doing. I have some PDF,  just t four pages.  Page three has a list of questions that I need to study. I also has the references whee I can FIND the answers.  I do this about about once every 6 weeks.

What I want is a new document with just the questions on that page. It can be in another format. It could be in DOC or REF or even TXT format. Then I can edit it in my word processor and create page breaks as nee4eed. I will find the answers  and  write down my comments under each question.

So, basically, how can I convert the PDF to a format I KNOW how to edit. I have tried a few things and the results were not what works for me. I tried Foxit and got stuck. I tried Libre Office and DESTROYED the document. The on-line service wants my email. I don't want more SPAM.

Any suggestions?   


Something that you can edit is either JPG or Word document, so you are looking for a decent PDF to JPG or Word converter. At Cnet 123 PDF Converter and Able2Extract have pretty good rating from both users and editors and in description it says they can convert to both doc and jpg. Try these 2, they should work.
And yes I 100% agree that Libre Office is a weird software because after I installed and deleted it, all my documents (doc and spreadsheets) were of unknown format (my PC stopped recognizing the type of the document).THANKS for the tip. I downloaded the program you mentioned.
 Using it I found the PDF page I had is really and image, not text! That is why I could not edit it! Now I see the problem!
Thanks! 
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Thanks for the tip. I downloaded the program you mentioned.
 Using it I found the PDF page I had is really and image, not text! That is why I could not edit it! Now I see the problem!
Thanks!

If you really need to be able to edit text in this document, you MIGHT be able to run an OCR on this PDF and read the text, then work with the text in say Open Office or MS Word etc, to make whatever changes are necessary and then save the file as a new PDF with the changes.

In most cases its usually easier to start a new document, however in some situations its easier to unflatten the PDF to work with it in which when its an image its flattened and cant be altered. Unflattened basically means that the layers that make the document ( Background, Text, Images, Watermarks, etc ) are able to be edited or extracted from one another.I'm thinking the page is an Author locked file which means no app is gonna work on it...


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