gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » word document http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Convert PDF To Word And Excelhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/21/convert-pdf-to-word-and-excel/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/21/convert-pdf-to-word-and-excel/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 08:28:22 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/21/convert-pdf-to-word-and-excel/ adobe pdfMany users who want to extract non-textual data from a pdf document help themselves by creating a screenshot of that data to embed it into their documents. While most pdf readers are nowadays capable of copying text from pdf documents they usually do lack the ability to copy more complex data like tables or drawings from these documents.

Enter PDF to Excel and PDF to Word, two online services created by the same developer that convert pdf documents in microsoft word or microsoft excel documents. Both products are available online and simple to use. Three steps are required to convert the pdf document. The user needs to select a pdf document from the local computer system, pick a output format and enter an email address where the converted pdf document should be send to.

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The test results have been impressive. Take a look at the screenshot of the first page of a pdf document and its Word conversion.

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The conversion comes close to the original. Some parts might need some fine tuning but the overall look and feel of the pdf document has been carried over and probably more important than that the data in the tables looks exactly like that in the pdf document.

PDF to Excel (link) and PDF to Word (link) are two helpful online services for users who have to convert pdf documents into Word or Excel format.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/21/convert-pdf-to-word-and-excel/feed/ 12 Microsoft Word Metadata Scrubberhttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/18/microsoft-word-metadata-scrubber/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/18/microsoft-word-metadata-scrubber/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:24:08 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8362 Metadata in Word documents can reveal information that the creator of the document had no intention to distribute. This ranges from information about the author to comments and a unique identifying ID. It can lead to all kind of privacy leaks. Microsoft even recommends to distribute documents in paper form only on their website.

Doc Scrubber is a Microsoft Word metadata scrubber which can be used to analyze and scrub Word documents. The software program is compatible with Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000 or Windows XP. It has been designed with simplicity in mind. It basically is managed by the two buttons Analyze and Scrub.

Analyze lets the user analyze one specific Word document to see if and which information it reveals in the metadata. The Scrub button is where the real action takes place. It can be used to scrub a single document, all Word documents in a folder or selected documents of folder.

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By default a new document will be created after the scrubbing with the metadata removed which is another option that can be changed in the program’s settings. The user is given the choice to remove only the metadata that he selects.

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A total of 13 different settings can be removed from the selected Word documents including subject, keywords, comments and several dates including creation and last saved data. Three of those 13 options can reset data back to their default values. This includes setting the template back to normal.dot, the revision count to 1 and the total editing time to 0.

The very same menu contains two options to replace the author and company to values specified by the user.

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