If you have not made the switch to Office 2007 from earlier version's and you receive documents that you cannot open ( such as doc x ) you will need the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word , Excel & PowerPoint 2007 File Formats.
As usual make sure you read the instructions before installing.
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OCR or optical character recognition is the capture ( usually by a scanner ) of text ( from a printed copy or handwriting ) into a document / file that you can edit.
When you scan a document into a computer with your scanner it will produce an image file then software is needed to convert the scanned image into text.
The conversion is OCR or optical character recognition.
There is now an online service at ONLINE OCR where you can upload the following image formats.
And have the option of receiving the converted files in the following formats:
Checkout the website at Online OCR for more details
When it comes to opening PDF's Adobe has cornered the market but here are some great alternatives to use without using Adobe.
Fox It Reader is a great lightweight tool for reading PDFs and it's free
Cute PDF is great for creating PDFs and reading and it's free
Finally remember if you have a Google Account you will be able to open PDFs in G Mail.
Adobe has had a few security issues lately so it always pays to check for an updated version and do not turn off the automatic update checker.
So you need to convert a PDF document to a word document.
Try Zamzar where you upload the file and they email it back to you once it has been converted.
There is a cost involved with a minimum starting price of $7 a month
Zamzar also converts most file types to other formats