Convert a PDF document back to Word?

Question

If you convert a Word document to PDF, can you convert it back to into Word again

Answer 1

Yes - I use 'Solid Convertor', it's good.

There are numerous different ones available though.

Answer 2

Depends on the document and how it was created.

If you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, you can open and resave a PDF as a Word document if 1) the file was created from a text document, and not just scanned in as a picture and 2) the creator did not lock the document.

If you are using the Adobe Reader, you can select the "text" tools and try to highlight the text, copy it, and paste it into a Word document. You will lose an formatting , fonts, etc that were in the original document, but it least you will have the text. You then jsut reformat it in Word. However, if the original document was scanned in as a picture, rather then created from a text file, or made with one of the free PDF creator that coverts everything to a picture, you can not select and copy the text. It is not really text, just a picture of the text.

Good luck...

Answer 3

Depends on the converter that was used. Some cheap or free ones turn the document into a picture so your only hope there is to scan and OCR the printed document.

If security is not nailed down on the pdf file you may be able to copy and paste into a word doc.

If you Google for it, there are some pdf to word converters but most are not free or are very limited in the volume of work they will do at one time.

Answer 4

If you have Adobe Acrobat Professional then you can turn it back in to Rich Text Format which will open in Word and look roughly the same, if not you can try copying and pasted the whole lot in to Word if you have Acrobat Reader 7 or above, however using this method it will not look quite the same if there are things like images, tables and diagrams in it. If you are using Office 2007 always save a Word (.docx) format version as well as PDF version so it is easier to make changes and then overwrite the PDF as you go along.

Answer 5

Yes. Open the PDF document and display the page that contains the text you want to copy to Word.
Click the Text tool on the toolbar.
Click and drag to select the text you want to copy, or (if you want to select all the text) click once in the text area and press Ctrl+A.
Press Ctrl+C to copy the selected text to the Clipboard.
Switch to your Word document.
Press Ctrl+V to paste the contents of the Clipboard into your document.
This transfers the text to your Word document. It is only the plain, unformatted text, but you can now work with it in Word.

If you have the one of the latest versions of Adobe Acrobat--version 6 or 7--you can actually export a PDF document in either RTF or Word document format. (This won't work with Adobe Reader; you must have the full version of Acrobat.) Simply load the PDF and choose File | Save As. In the dialog box, choose Word document as the Save As Type. When you click Save, the document file is created.

If the PDF file is protected (authors can set security settings on PDF files so they are protected), then you won't be able to use either of the foregoing solutions. Instead, you will need to look to a third-party solution.

Answer 6

you could print the document and scan it in and use the OCR option in the scaneer also.