Just what was above. Saw some other conversions dmentioned, but not pdf back to the odf that
I accidentally deleted. A quick reply when you stop laughing at “Stupido”. (Does feature, if it exists, begin with some version?)
Sorry, can't send a simple question. (?) "Can a .pdf be converted back to a .odf (for deleted file)?
It depends on the fact: how you saved (exported, scanned) that PDF version of the original document.
- If you have embedded ODF content in the PDF file, then you can recreate the original document from the embedded version.
- If there is not embedded ODF in the PDF, but the PDF was created with the Export feature of the LO, then you can “mine out” some contents from the PDF, but not the 100% of it.
- If the PDF is a scanned version of the printed document, then some OCR software will help you to mine out of the text content.
Can you upload that PDF file here?
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It happens - you are not the first. But learn something of this: Backups are mandatory for everything important.
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To recover information from pdf, you may look for FlexiPDF by Softmaker, but it is often also possible to copy and paste from a pdf-viewer.
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You can recover the text and some of the formatting. Anything more complex like embedded charts, OLE-Objects or used styles will be lost. Headings wil often be only bigger text etc…
Dear Zizi64 and Wanderer,
Thank you both for the quick replies. I didn’t have time or drive to do anything on this yesterday. I was also waiting for one more version of my document.
3 options were suggested by Zizi. The original PDF was created by the PDF icon in my version of Writer. It is indicated as an export function, so that seems to pit it into option 2. (I was expecting it to fit into option 1, which seems to be the best.)
You, “Z”, also asked if I could upload it. Ignoring that that might be a new problem for me to ask about, it may not be necessary. See below.
Wanderer, despite my predicament, I had a humorous thought when you repeated that most frequently violated rule about making back-ups. Someone that deletes an important file as being an older version of something else, is very likely going to delete the back-up just as recklessly.
I won’t go looking for FlexiPDF now. See below. (I hope to never again need it.)
“Below”: At this point, I have the original PDF, a TXT version of it (ugly), an RDF version that came with the TXT (no idea how it can be used, but it looks good), and a DOC version from a second friend. The DOC and the RDF look the same, but Writer mentions Word documents. I was able to move the DOC from “downloads” to “documents”. When opened, it has an ODF ending. To test it for editing, I added “Hello” on the first line, and saved it with a slightly different name. They are both in “documents”, so I may have been blessed for some good deed in the past.
I’ll never know if the July 31 2023 PDF was my last version, but I’d have to revise too, so not the loss ZZI faced a few days ago.
Thank you again for your suggestions.
Best wishes for 2024,
Lem Chastain
PS errata: 1. typo, l. 5 – “…pit it in option 2.” should begin with “put”.
2. typo, 4th l. from end-- “…the loss ZZI faced…” should not contain any Z’s