General ⇒ .pdf to .tex

[gosha]

hello,
is there a way to convert a pdf file (generated, you guess it, through msword) to a .tex file with all the formatting, so that I could simply modify it and re-convert it to pdf?
Thank you

[localghost]

Answer yourself the question if it is possible to separate a cake to its ingredients. The same is true for PDF files.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi gosha,

that's not possible. You could use LaTeX for small modifications like insertion of some text.
But I think you have to write the LaTeX code for that document by yourself.

Stefan

[porky_pig_jr]

Answer yourself the question if it is possible to separate a cake to its ingredients. The same is true for PDF files.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

Not exactly true. You *can* convert .pdf back to .doc format. There are some free conversion tools available. Yes, the original question is "pdf to tex", but the file was originally doc format, so at least you can convert it back and edit from msword.

[localghost]

Not exactly true. You *can* convert .pdf back to .doc format. There are some free conversion tools available. Yes, the original question is "pdf to tex", but the file was originally doc format, so at least you can convert it back and edit from msword.

May be. But from my point of view it would be less time consuming when taking a PDF viewer, or even better GSview/Ghostscript, saving the plain text and restructuring the document from scratch with LaTeX.

[gosha]

thank you all, I knew you can convert pdf to doc, this is why I asked.