[senit] converting PDF files

There are a number of products which will allow you to convert the Pdf onto alt formats such as html for editing - be aware that editing material which you do not have a license for, or which you did not create could fall foul of copyright law 

Probably the best of these conversion utilities is riverdocs - its easy to use but relatively expensive - Able to extract is another good products at around £50 

There is a free online utility    http://www.pdfonline.com/ which may assist and also there is a download from them of a budget conversion utility 

AbilityNet are looking to run a course later in the year on conversion and utilities to alt formats - anyone interested let me know and Ill send you details when ready 

David Banes
Director of Development

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-----Original Message-----
From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk [mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Alice Chenneour Randall
Sent: 10 January 2008 20:45
To: senit
Subject: [senit] converting PDF files

I'm sorry that this might appear obvious to all you technical wizards out there - we are a VI service and have been relatively fortunate in recieving the PDF files of a number of text books, dierctly from the publishers. The difficulty is that we are having no success in converting these files into a format that allows us to manipulate the material. Any help would be very welcome.
  Many thanks
  Alice Chenneour Randall
  Oxfordshire VISS