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[Jan de Wit]

Dear all,

I am very happily surprised by the quality and friendliness of this forum. Very usefull and interesting discussions.

I am working with producer groups in developing countries on quality management.
Most groups maintain multiple certifications such as fairtrade, organic, globalgap, SQF2000, BRC etcetera. That is quite a hassle as you will understand.

I am using web-technology to present quality manuals, and I am building a basic model including the most used standards. Some standards are pretty easy to 'translate' to HTML, others are more difficult. Transforming PDF to Word is not too much of a problem, but with text and tables it requires a lot of work.

Has anyone come accross the original Excel files of the GlobalGap Control Points and Compliance criteria? Or has anyone translated these pdf's to a practical Word or Excel file?

[Simon]

I just noticed your post Jan - are you still seeking this information?

[Jan de Wit]

Yep, still hoping that someone has them.
I can even see the original name of the excel sheets in the PDF file:
GG_EG_IFA_CPCC_intro_ENG_V3_0_2_Sep07_update17Apr08.xls

In fact I do not understand so much why these types of documents are published as PDF. OK to keep the formatting, but the documents are public anyhow. So why not the service to make them available as well in txt of xls or doc?

[Charles.C]

Dear Jan de Wit,

I remember posting links to the globalgap documents around 2years ago and I think they were already in pdf then as well unfortunately.

I presume you hv already looked into converting the pdfs into excel?
Never played with this exact route myself but I did spend a lot of time looking for pdf to word 3-4 years ago. Then everything which (even approximately) worked seemed unfree although some methods were quite cheap to buy (eg amber which offered a free demo which seemed quite successful to me). Now there are more options some free, eg zamzar and others. I can see the work involved may be not negligible, depends what you can get out of the result.

I daresay you hv seen these links before (no idea how useful) but anyway -

http://www.online-te...-or-jpg-format/

http://www.reportminers.com/
(not free and not cheap IMO)

http://www.pdfonline...2word/index.asp

http://www.soliddocu...reatePDFtoExcel

Rgds / Charles.C

PS I should add that my previous experience was that most of these converters did not work very well for any complex documents so make sure you have backed up yr "original" first

[angelica]

I'm not sure if I undesrtood your question, but I offer you this link

http://www.globalgap...t...id=&idcat=9

hope this helps you

I'm sorry I haven't seen your post before

[Jan de Wit]

Dear Charles,

Most of these links I know indeed. They work fine, especially Pdf-online does an excellent and free job. Problem is that the tables are readable in Word but not usable because of all the section breaks.

However, I tried Solid converter, haven't seen that one before, and it does the tables excellent!!

Thank you very very much, this saves me a terrible job.

Muchas gracias Angelica! Yes I knew the link, nice music, however the CPCC still in PDF, but not for long though!
Have you manager to get the hyperlinks running between Visio forms and Excel cells?

Edited by Jan de Wit, 16 December 2008 - 10:18 AM.

[angelica]

Dear Charles,

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Muchas gracias Angelica! Yes I knew the link, nice music, however the CPCC still in PDF, but not for long though!
Have you manager to get the hyperlinks running between Visio forms and Excel cells?

dear Jan,

yes!!! I've!!
thank you, very much

have a nice day

[StevoTheDevo]

Koolwire is another pdf converting service.
It's fast, free and according to this review does the most accurate conversions.

Review link - http://www.freewareg...mparative-test/
The site is currently down for maintenance as I write this.. Google's cache for the site is here, http://209.85.173.13...lient=firefox-a

[Charles.C]

Dear Stevo,

Many thks for the tip. I have also been using this review site for information on topics like firewall packages / adding functions to windows explorer and I found it a great source for opinions / links. In addition, the comments section is equally active and informative, often improving on the main article which is a good indicator IMO !

I noted that there are many plus and minus comments about all of these converters and I fear this is a general result, there seems to be an element of "random" luck in it, free or otherwise. I personally failed to get usable conversion of pdf pages which had footers in them but perhaps this was simply expecting too much (for so little).

Rgds / Charles.C