Is there an easy way to convert an Adobe file (saved in .pdf format) into a Word file (saved in .doc format)?
I’m looking for a free-of-charge utility, if one exists. I don’t see a way to save the .pdf file into another format.
Thanks.
Adobe Acrobat can convert PDFs to .docs. Of course, you have to pay for it(that’s how Adobe makes their money off the Reader).
The freeware xpdf will extract the text from PDFs. There a version of it for windows, and its a command line tool, so its a bit rough and ready. You’ll lose the formatting of the doc, but you’ll have the text. Google ‘xpdf download for windows’.
You might be better off using the text selection tool in Acobat, and copying-and-pasting into word.
I’m not aware of any tool that does this. I vaguely recall that there may be such a tool that converts to HTML, but my mixed up memory may be confusing a tool that converts FROM HTML TO PDF. Anyway, a good place to search is Planet PDF
You can select all text in Acrobat, copy, and paste it into Word. This will copy the text, but not the graphics, and all formatting will be lost.
You can “save” the PDF file as a PostScript file by printing it to a PostScript printer, but using the “print to file” option (either in Acrobat Reader’s print dialog, or in your OS’s printer setup).
If you try to convert to almost any other format, including Word, be aware that you’ll probably lose a good deal of the formatting.
This all assumes that your pdf file wasn’t just a scanned page, in which case it’s just a graphic. You would probably need an OCR program to deal with that.