[Web4lib] Pdf to MSWord conversion software

[Dan Scott]

On 12/04/07, Ryan Eby <ryaneby at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not too familiar with the OpenOffice conversion abilities but you
> may be able to use it to go from PDF to Word. I know you can go from
> Word to PDF. There was a lightning talk at Code4Lib about using the OO
> API in DSpace to automatically convert Word and other submissions to
> PDF. You can see an example on this page:

OOo is great at generating PDF documents, but is unfortunately unable
to read PDF documents. I just gave it a shot using OOo 2.1.0, trying
to read in a PDF document that I had created using OOo previously. No
dice.

Dan Scott