Help converting an old .pdf file with cyrillic text to a .doc

[Valery Belyanin]

try this
http://www.artlebedev.ru/tools/decoder/

Truly yours
Valeri Belianine
С наилучшими пожеланиями,
Валерий Белянин



On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Andrea Gregovich <agregovich at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Has anyone successfully converted an older .pdf file of Russian text to a
> .doc, or something that can be cut and pasted?  My translation process goes
> so much faster if I can cut and paste words for searching on the internet,
> and many of the stories in the book I'm working on aren't available
> anywhere in a word processor-friendly format.  When I cut and paste from
> this .pdf, the text comes through as the old familiar vowel gibberish (Äåä
> îòâåòèë, etc.).  Google has a visual text recognition option that didn't
> work, read it as gibberish again.  I've tried opening the .pdf file in my
> word processor, which is Open Office, and it asks me to specify an ASCII
> format, of which there are quite a few Cyrillic ones listed.  I've tried a
> few of them and can keep trying more, but so far they too have come through
> as a fouled up file that is not the text.  My Adobe Acrobat reader offers a
> paid option to convert .pdf to .doc, but scuttlebut around the internet
> suggests that I'll have the same problem with this and other converters.
> If there is a software that is confirmed to work for this problem I would
> consider buying it.
>
> The author is remote and not terribly computer savvy, so I don't want to
> ask him for a .doc file until I've exhausted all options.  Simpler requests
> have confused him terribly in the past!
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Andrea Gregovich
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