[dba-Tech] Recommended free software: was Re: Office security issue CVE-2023-23397

[Stuart McLachlan]

MS Word generally doesn't do a bad job of converting  PDFs back to Word when you tell it to 
open one.

The Adobe online tool isn't bad either:
https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/pdf-to-word.html



On 22 Mar 2023 at 21:28, Arthur Fuller wrote:

> Seeing these lists and their references to various PDF-writing and
> -reading tools, I wonder if there exists an opposite tool -- one that
> can open a PDF and save its contents as, say, a Word file. Anyone know
> of such a beast?
> 
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 5:17PM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Classic Shell
> > Firefox
> > Veracrypt
> >
> > SQLite studio
> > Visual Studio Code
> > Geany
> > VNC Viewer
> > Kindle
> > Libre Office
> > Virtual Box
> > Python 3.11
> > Bitwarden
> > 7zip
> > Davinci Resolve
> > OBS Studio
> > Touch Portal
> > Reaper (although I paid for this after awhile)
> > Transcribe!
> > Winamp
> > Open Morrowind
> > Tunnel Bear
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 12:22PM Rocky Smolin
> > <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > VLC Media Player? I find it able to play just about anything.
> > >
> > > I used to use PrimoPDF but I find that the Windows PDF printer is
> > > just fine.
> > >
> > > I use Everything almost every day (that I'm working).
> > >
> > > I use the free edition of Musescore for writing and playing music
> > > for practice. It's also good for transposing the key and printing
> > > out a new lead sheet.
> > >
> > > Lightshot for screen captures - very flexible.
> > >
> > > MicroTorrent
> > >
> > > BitDefender
> > >
> > > Spybot
> > >
> > > CCleaner
> > >
> > > Team Viewer
> > >
> > > MDBDiff
> > >
> > > There's probably more.
> > >
> > > r
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 11:22PM Stuart McLachlan <
> > stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 22 Mar 2023 at 4:40, John Bartow wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I have a large list of open
> > > > > source and free apps that I can install - update - remove with
> > > > > a
> > click
> > > > > of my RMM scripts for friends. Of those apps there have been
> > > > > very few that have impressed me to the point of qualifying for
> > > > > a post here.
> > > > >
> > > > > John B
> > > >
> > > > I guess an interesting thread here would be something like:  the
> > > > top
> > > 10(?)
> > > > recommended
> > > > open source and free apps that I regularly recommend to friends.
> > > >  :)
> > > >
> > > > I'll start - off the top of my head:
> > > >
> > > > For general use, I'd start with
> > > > Irfanview
> > > > Foxit PDF Reader
> > > > Bullzip PDF printer
> > > > Notepad++
> > > > Everything
> > > > Terracopy
> > > > VideoLan
> > > >
> > > > Then there are the more specific ones which depend on their
> > > > interests
> > and
> > > > tasks.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Stuart
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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