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Converting PDF to usuable docx fails because converted file is a picture


James Quinn

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The Doxillion program would convert the PDF files to enable docs if the PDF is not set as an image, what you can try to do is a clean install and delete all the cache of the program. Uninstall your software first, then go to the folder location below on your computer then delete the Doxillion folder folders:

C:\ProgramData\NCH Software
C:\Users\(Your computer profile)\AppData\Roaming\NCH Software\Doxillion

If you can't find the AppData folder, set Windows to show hidden files and folders with the steps from this link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14201/windows-show-hidden-files.

After deleting the Doxillion folder, restart your computer then install it again from the next link: https://www.nchsoftware.com/documentconvert/doxpsetup.exe

That should do it. Please try it again after that and see if that fixes the issue.

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On 4/28/2021 at 12:36 AM, DannR said:


The Doxillion program would convert the PDF files to enable docs if the PDF is not set as an image, what you can try to do is a clean install and delete all the cache of the program. Uninstall your software first, then go to the folder location below on your computer then delete the Doxillion folder folders:

C:\ProgramData\NCH Software
C:\Users\(Your computer profile)\AppData\Roaming\NCH Software\Doxillion

If you can't find the AppData folder, set Windows to show hidden files and folders with the steps from this link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14201/windows-show-hidden-files.

After deleting the Doxillion folder, restart your computer then install it again from the next link: https://www.nchsoftware.com/documentconvert/doxpsetup.exe

That should do it. Please try it again after that and see if that fixes the issue.

Thanks for your precious suggestion. This can prove to be helpful for us.

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I have a registered version of Dixillion. I have carefully followed the instructions given by DannR as I too have the problem stated by James Quinn. However to no avail. So after much time lost I still have the problem. As I experience it the problem is as follows:

When I convert a pdf to docx the word file produced shows images that were in the original pdf file but no text areas in the original file are converted, the areas are present and blank. In fact where the text would be expected to be, there are just blank pages.

Similarly when I convert an epub to docx the same thing occurs as described: the word file has the images in the original epub file present but none of the text.

I have tried to convert to odt, rtf, txt and the outcome is the same.

Has anyone had these problems and overcome them?

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Nearly twelve months on.  Does OCR work yet?  (It doesn't for me, just converts PDF with image to Word with image)

@DannR wrote: "The Doxillion program would convert the PDF files to enable docs if the PDF is not set as an image".

If the PDF file is not an image what is the point of OCR?  OCR is specifically for recognising text in images.

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