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I hear some version of the following question over and over:
"Which software accurately converts PDF to Word?"
Converting PDF to Word (or other word-processing applications, HTML or whatever) is not a simple, push-button affair, as almost everyone who has ever tried it knows (thus the questions).
Even so, most people are looking for a simple, push-button way to get the contents of a PDF into a Word file. What's the typical experience? Documents with layouts even slightly more complex than vanilla paragraphs routinely convert into junk. End-users expect this task to be pretty easy - which explains why the tone of the typical inquiry may be characterized as "pained".
Let\'s take a moment to understand why converting PDF to Word is so problematic.
The factors influencing the quality of conversion from PDF to Word are, in descending order of significance:
Factor 1 is a property of the PDF file itself, not the software used to extract the contents to Word. If the document is properly structured and tagged, predictable results may be had in converting to Word from Adobe Acrobat.
Beyond Factor 1, different software will guess at logical structure via analysis and assessment of the layout, fonts and objects on the page. There is no magic bullet. The more complex the document, the lower the chance of high-quality output, no matter what software is used.
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A wonderful tool for people who frequently converts pdf to word,I've tried Advanced pdf to word 5.0,and i quite satisfied with it.It is the key to my business.you can learn from:
http://www.advancedpdfconverter.com/products/pdftoword.html
Convert pdf to word
I have downloaded a program called Advanced pdf to word 5.0. It,s pretty good. It is very good in preserving the formatting. You download it from: http://www.advancedpdfconverter.com/products/pdftoword.html
Biggest problems are caused because of these boxes which are just part of OCRing (every paragraph gets its own box in word and that's very hard to format).
When I was converting my website http://www.ad.com.hr which is on croatian, I had one similar problem, part of my testimonials were scanned in pdf, when i converted them, I couldn't use it at all because graphics were mixed with background on paper and handwriting from clients...
Thanks for your post!
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