Often, you might have faced issues with PDF documents, wherein you want to do some tweaking here and there. And editing in PDF document is not possible. So, how do you deal with such irksome situations?
The only way is to look out for some converters. While it is relatively easy to convert a Word document to PDF but converting the other way is an awful task. Let us now look at some of the ways to convert PDF to word documents.
- Here, we are first downloading the PDF to Word convertor. You can download it from here.
- Now install the program on your computer.
- Now open the application and select the option “ADD PDF Files”.
- Now select the files that need conversion, by simply browsing those files. This imports the files that need conversion.
- You can also drag and drop the files onto the user interface.
- You can either convert one file at a time or bulk of files at a time.
- When you are ready with your files, just click on Convert Button and specify the destination for it.
- Within few seconds, your word document will be ready for you.
- The process is very simple and the user interfaces are self-explanatory.
How to Convert PDF to Word on Mac
Now let us see how to convert PDF to Word document on a Mac. For this, all you need is an Automator application.
First, open a Finder Window. Here, in the window Side Bar, select “Applications”.
Now just scroll down and select the Automator application. This will launch the application.
- This should open up a new Automator window, here, in the upper-left corner select “Custom”. Now in the botton right corner, you will find an option “Choose”; click on it. This will start the construction of “Automator” PDF-to-text application.
- Now you will find “PDFs” under Actions, in the new automator window. Click on it.
- Now in the second column, you can see an option “Extract PDF Text”. This will open a new dialog box. In that select Rich Text Option.
- Now specify your destination path and give a name to the file in “Output File Name” option.
- Now in the Mac Menu Bar, Open the File option and Click on Save As in it. This will open up a dialog box. Select the file format and give a new and relevant name. Now save the file and quit from automator window.
- Now click on the PDF file that you wish to convert to word format. Now drag this PDF file and drop it onto the the application you just created in the automator window.
- This will convert the PDF to Rich text file. Now that you have a rich text file, open a word document.
- Go to File, this will open up a new dialog box, in that select the rich text application you have just created.
- This should bring out the document intact in MS-Word.
How to Convert PDF to Word 2007
Now let us see how to convert PDF to Word 2007
- For this we will be using a free online conversion service called Zamzar. You can find it here online.
- Open the website and you should see a tab “Send Files”. Click on that option.
- You will be redirected to page with various options. Here select the Document conversion option.
- This should take you to page with different types of files. Here select PDF.
- Now upload your PDF file you want to convert. You can also enter the URL of the PDF file.
- Now, since you want to convert to Word 2007, select .docx extension.
- This should send you an email containing different links to the file you just converted.
- This email should reach you within few minutes and in some cases may take longer time.
You can also try other method
- You will convert here with an online application called “PDF Online”. You can find it here.
- Mostly you will receive a complete document without any missing words. Also, you don’t need to provide your email ids with this option.
- Now open the website. On the home page itself, on the left hand side you should see an option called “PDF to Word”.
- Click on this option and you will be redirected to a page, where you need to upload and convert the PDF file.
- Remember, larger files may take bit more time to get uploaded. This will start your upload and conversion process.
- Once the conversion completes, you will see a document in rich text format.
- You can open this document in Word 2007. Now save the file with an extension .docx.
How to Convert PDF to Word using Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat helps you to convert different file formats from PDF.
Here are the steps to convert PDF to Word -
- Go to File
- Select Export
- Then select the text format – Microsoft Word Document
- Click Settings
- Select the options that you need for your document
- Click OK
- Click Save
You can purchase Adobe Acrobat from here.
How to Convert PDF to Word 2010
Now let us see how to convert PDF to Word 2010 in Windows.
- For this you will need PDF to Word 2010 converter. You can find it here.
- Initially, download this converter and install it on your computer/laptop.
- Save a shortcut icon on the desktop. Now open the application.
- Now you will have to import the files that need conversion. For this there are two ways:
- Here, in the figure below, you can see an option called “Add PDFs”. First option is to click on this and add the PDFs.
- The second option is to drag and drop the files onto the interface.
- Now in Windows, for the conversion, the option is set to PDF to Word 2010 by default. But, in Windows 7, you need to specify it. For this go to Settings and select the option “Convert to Office 2007/2010 compatible files. And click OK.
- Now click on convert. This starts the conversion process, and you should see your Word 2010 compatible documents after conversion.You have learnt different ways of converting PDF to Word. So, why not go and try it?
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