Conversion from PDF Produces Very Little Text

[Ray Phillips]

I'm using the free trial of Nitro Pro 12 on Windows 10...

When converting two PDF files (one created from Excel 2013 [1], the other from Word 2013 [2]) the resulting files have very little text, mostly what appears to be images. The PDF files (appear to) contain only text so I expected the result to be almost perfect. Is it possible for someone from Nitro to look at them and provide feedback, please?

 

[1]  https://qld.childcarealliance.org.au/downloads/human-resources/199-interview-scoresheet-numeric/file    (143 KB in size)

[2]  https://qld.childcarealliance.org.au/downloads/human-resources/201-position-description-template/file    (808 KB in size)

[Leslie V]

Hello @nfauNP,

You can send a sample file here and your exact step by step process so we can have a look.

Cheers!

[Ray Phillips]

Thanks for replying Leslie.

These were the steps I used to convert the "Interview Scoresheet - Numeric.pdf" file:

https://qld.childcarealliance.org.au/downloads/human-resources/199-interview-scoresheet-numeric/file

- opened the PDF file

- clicked the "To Excel" button in the Convert ribbon

- clicked the Convert button in the dialog box

I've just tried again, and found there's more editable text than I realised in the Excel file that Nitro Pro produced from "Interview Scoresheet - Numeric.pdf", which is good. It seems to be just the bulleted points that have come out as images, but that's still quite a bit of uneditable text.

For the "Position description template.pdf" file:

https://qld.childcarealliance.org.au/downloads/human-resources/201-position-description-template/file

I clicked "To Word" then the Convert button. The resulting Word file consisted of only images, as far as I can see.

I would upload the files here but, annoyingly, can't see how to do that--are you able to download them from the URLs I've provided?

[Ray Phillips]

Hi Leslie. Please let me know if you've been able to look at those two documents and see whey Nitro Pro doesn't convert them properly.

If not, please explain how I can attach them to a message in this forum.