I know there are people in CC who are far more computer-savvy than myself. Hell, there are people shambling around attempting to eat brains who are more computer-savvy than myself.
So here's my problem:
I bought a bunch of old books scanned in as a PDF.
They contain lots of illustrations (all in the public domain) which I'd like to use some of for a project.
But the entire books are scanned in as images, not as text - hence the PDFs are all page images.
I tried converting a PDF to Word, but that didn't work.
I have managed to extract individual illos (ie the page image), but for some reason only in an OXPS format.
I can't import OXPS format images into anything else.
I've tried renaming the file in Word (which I know works for XPS files, I did it for some ancient stuff written vis the older "Works" program.
But trying to do this with the OXPS file is giving Word conniptions - after 20 minutes it's still just flashing at em, and taskmgr tells me that it's only using 0- 0.7% of the CPU to do it.
Now the low-tech version is to print the damn things out, scan 'em back in and then work with 'em, but that means losing resolution and spending hours cleaning up smudgy bits.
Oh, yes, the illos I'm interested in will all be b&w eventually, though they're scanned in colour. This bit I can cope with, and it'll shrink the file size too.
