Has anyone ever sent you a PDF document that you need to get back into Word format to edit? But nobody has the original Word document to make changes in? Don’t waste time retyping the whole thing! Just let any of these websites convert a PDF file to a Word document for you… free!
The best one in my experience has been Convert PDF To Word. The website and conversion process are both really fast. Just click the BROWSE button to locate your PDF file and press OK. In a few moments, a link will appear for you to immediately download the converted file! It’s been easy and blisteringly fast for every PDF I have thrown at it, and recreates the original PDF file in Word perfectly. The only problem is that is recreates the original PDF file in Word perfectly. If the PDF is complex, with a lot of tables and drawings, the word version will have a lot of tables and sub-tables all over the place. Things won’t be congruently selectable, but you can edit everything as much as you like. Everything I tested came back looking just like the original PDF it came from. If you’re looking for a direct copy of a PDF file that just needs a tweak here and there, this site is the one to use.
My second favorite is PDF ONLINE. This site is fast, with a simple BROWSE button to upload your PDF file from your local computer. In a few moments, you can download the converted word document. This site doesn’t do so well with a heavily detailed PDF in my tests, though. But it does great with grabbing the core content of a PDF and making everything selectable at once. Website PDFs consistently came back with the article as the main conversion. Books would convert in one big flowing document. However, this site converted everything into RTF format. You can go to Word and go to FILE and OPEN to pull the data in for this kind of conversion. If you don’t need the sidebars on a website, or your PDF document is pretty much text and no graphics, this site is the one you should choose.
3rd on my list is PDF TO WORD. This site is similar to the other two in its’ ease of use, but the main difference is that this site will email you the converted file. It’s kind of a mixed blessing. The results were somewhere between the two sites above, and it was nice to know the converted files would be waiting for me in my inbox and not have to be downloaded to the PC I was at. But some complex PDF conversions were so slow, they didn’t show up in my inbox for hours. An overall nice compliment to the two above.
Thanks for the information, I’ve tried those online PDF Converter, quite convenient, but if you are in urgent or wanna convert some personal or classified PDF, they are not that reliable I think. I’m using AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter, which is fast and accurate, text, layouts, images can be retained, it can even convert protected PDF.
http://www.anypdftools.com/pdf-to-word.html#163
Thanks for the post. I have tried it but seems that it does not support encrypted pdf files conversion and it cost me a lot of time to wait for the converted files.
I always convert PDF files to editable word format with AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter and edit them if necessary. It supports encrypted files and preserves text, layouts, images and hyperlinks accurately.
After you edit it, you can use an office add-on SaveAsPDF to save word as PDF format if necessary.
Have you considered something called ABBYY FineReader? This product is considered the most accurate on the market for conversion of paper documents or electronic ones like a PDF. it goes into Word or Excel or even Rich Text. hope this is helpful although a bit after the fact as this is now 2012!!