Converting PDFs to MS Word Documents
Having trouble converting that important PDf document into Microsoft’s Office document types? Normally you would assume that you will need Adobe’s full featured Adobe Acrobat (which costs upwards of 200 usd) to do that. Here are some ways to convert your pdf docs at a fraction of the cost.
There are several ways to accomplish this conversion that don’t involve paying $299 for Adobe’s full Acrobat program. Here are some of your alternatives:
FREE: Open the PDF in Adobe Reader and select Edit, Copy File to Clipboard. Then open a new Word document and press
-V to paste in the text. This doesn’t copy the file’s images or page formatting, and every line of text becomes its own paragraph, so editing the file is harder. $10: CTdeveloping’s PDF to DOC program (see FIGURE 1) accurately imports a PDF file’s images as well as its text and all but the most complex page formatting. However, each line of text will be its own frame—as bad for editing as the free option above. Still, the program is useful for straight importing without any editing.
$40: Your PDF file’s text will flow from line to line with only an occasional error when you paste it into a .doc file using Investintech.com’s Able2Doc utility. Like PDF to DOC, the program converts most of the original file’s formatting correctly.
source: PC World
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1 opinion for Converting PDFs to MS Word Documents
StarkedSF Editor
Aug 22, 2007 at 3:17 pm
A lot of people do this to upload attachments to job apps. Often their is a 1MB limit, which even a one-page .pdf will hit, But if you reduce the DPI in printer settings you can make the file manageable for uploads. Same with CUTE PDF writer.
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