Computer newbies forum: A free PDF to Word Converter?

I use openoffice.org3.0, it is free and can open any office programs, calc, word, pps as well. I hope this helps!

If you have Microsoft Office, there is a fantastic way of creating editable text from PDFs. I have used many OCR programs and this method is the best Ive found. Its accuracy is amazing. Formatting is not perfect, but its better than any I've used. I discovered it while using MS Office XP and 2003 so Im not sure if its available in older versions of Office.

Click Start, Programs, and look for Microsoft Office Tools. Then select Microsoft Office Document Scanning. When the next window opens, you will need to specify your scanner and some other options. Go with the defaults if in doubt, but you will need to point it to your scanner. Let your scanner scan the pages for you. When the next window opens, click on Send to Word. And voila! you have an editable text document.

Just came across this the other day for OpenOffice:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport

It is a Sun PDF Import Extension by Sun Microsystems (free as far as I know) which allows you to edit PDF files. I have not tried it yet but it might give you the functionality you really need.

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It does what it says on the tin, Ok

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/Free-PDF-to-Word-Converter.shtml

Used it today, so far no limits, etc... and works completely fast, accurate as can be expected.