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How can I convert a PDF into word in labview? Any ideas would be helpful...
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By "in LabVIEW" do you mean you want to write code in LabVIEW to interpret the PDF and rewrite it as as Word document? While it could be done, you'd spend days trying to implement all the details of the PDF and Word formats, assuming you could get access to all the details.

 

Otherwise you'd be better off looking for an application with a command-line or ActiveX interface that you can run to do the conversion, and then call it from LabVIEW. Do you need all the content of the PDF, or just the text? If you only need the text, search this forum for "Text from PDF" and you'll find links to some VIs and tools that can do it. You can then use the ActiveX interface to Word to write that text into a Word document, but you'll lose all formatting and layout.

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Hello Nathand,

 

I did a search on activex compnents to convert PDF to word and came across this link.

 

http://www.adeptpdf.com/down-pdf-to-word-converter.html

 

After I installed this exe, I was able to place in an activex container on my front panel namely "Amyuni Document Converter ActiveX".....

 

Any ideas from this point on to accomplish what I want to do???

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Did this program come with any documentation? I don't see any on the web page, nor do I see an mention of support for use as an ActiveX component. Can the converter program be run from the command line?

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