This is not as straightforward as you may think - no OCR application offers 100% accuracy, so careful proof-reading will be required. doc or other output file into OpenOffice (#2), edit it as you require (#3) and then Export as PDF (#4). doc file - exact output formats available depend on the application used. The OCR application will produce (usually) a. This is not to be taken as a recommendation of any or all of these programs - which you use is your decision and their use is entirely under your control. There may also be shareware OCR programs for Windows I do not know of these. Your best option is to search for or purchase an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application commercial versions for Windows are (inter alia) Omnipage and Abbyy FineReader there are others. (#1) Not a good idea when major edits are required to a PDF file DOC or DOCX so I can open it in Microsoft Office. If this is not the case then will someone please suggest software that can translate the. #2 Save the file as an OpenOffice 4.1.4 Writer file (which will allow me to make future modifications) If the solution is to use some other software to read this file then that's what I want to see & not some obscure solution that's seems to be indicated on this post. PDF file that resembles what I read with the Adobe Reader. PDF file all I get is a long vertical document with ASCII characters but there is nothing that comes close to the original. I use a desktop PC loaded with Win 7 & when I attempt to load a. Am I missing something here? This post has been marked as solved but I see nothing to indicate that there is a valid solution within OpenOffice 4.1.4 that allows me to open a.

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