[soramo]

ok, shortly, Recently I have some PDF files need to transfer to word for use in my office 2008. I firstly tried to copy and paste but the contents are messed up using Adobe Reader. I could not upload it to Zamzar.com or other online websites because they are my company’s confidential files and the original documents are ruined. As I use Mac OS and there is little desktop software I can refer to. So any idea helpfully would be appreciated.

[Simon]

I used to use a little CLI app called pdf2ascii. But if Adobe Reader or Preview won't allow you to select the text it's likely embedded as an image on the PDF and your SOL.

You could of course scan that PDF and get the text from OCR if you have a scanner and software available.

[OreoCookie]

You can get a piece of software such as OCRkit if the pdfs don't contain actual text.