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Please recommend good software or website for PDF to Word conversion

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Word Jan 26, 2023

Have you tried simply opening the PDF with Word?

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would be great if it was so easy... unfortunately it's not

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This one is good! Jan 26, 2023

https://www.online-convert.com/

 
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Word Jan 26, 2023

Word has the ability to do it. Maybe the result with your specific file is not as desired, but please don't leave us guessing when you ask for suggestions.

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sejda.com Jan 26, 2023

Try this one https://www.sejda.com/pdf-to-word

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Abbyy Finereader Jan 26, 2023

Not free but works well.

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Thomas T. Frost wrote:

Word has the ability to do it. Maybe the result with your specific file is not as desired, but please don't leave us guessing when you ask for suggestions.


Should be obvious that when I ask for recommendations, I am looking for something that has an acceptable result. Sure, Word can open it, even Notepad can, but the result is not very pleasing to the eye (to put it mildly)


 
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Stepan Konev wrote:

Try this one https://www.sejda.com/pdf-to-word


This seems pretty good. Thanks!


 
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We are not psychics Jan 26, 2023

Asso Kork wrote:

Thomas T. Frost wrote:

Word has the ability to do it. Maybe the result with your specific file is not as desired, but please don't leave us guessing when you ask for suggestions.


Should be obvious that when I ask for recommendations, I am looking for something that has an acceptable result. Sure, Word can open it, even Notepad can, but the result is not very pleasing to the eye (to put it mildly)


There is nothing wrong with the PDF I just tried to open in Word, but it obviously depends on the PDF. If you are not more specific and tell us what is wrong with a suggestion, we can't guess what exactly the problem is. You don't even say if the PDF concerned is text- or image-based.


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This question is asked several times here Jan 26, 2023

https://por.proz.com/forum/software_applications/357551-pdf_... See more
https://por.proz.com/forum/software_applications/357551-pdf_conversion.html#2956790

https://www.proz.com/forum/prozcom_translation_industry_wiki/202369-converting_a_pdf_document_to_doc_format.html

https://www.proz.com/forum/software_applications/342844-best_pdf_converter.html

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@Asso & Stepan, Jan 26, 2023

I have tried some of the options including the ones here and https://www.sejda.com/pdf-to-word has converted my file keeping the formatting consistent.
Thank you and have a blessed day!


 
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CAT tools Jan 26, 2023

Asso Kork wrote:
Please recommend good software or website for PDF to Word conversion.

Some CAT tools have the ability to convert PDF to DOCX. I'm particularly impressed with DOCX files created from PDF files by Trados. Some CAT tools only convert the PDF to plain text, but others create a DOCX file and then translate that.

Word 365's conversion is often quite acceptable, depending on the PDF file, of course.

Abbyy FineReader does a relatively good job, although the results are sometimes better if you tweak the settings and select individual blocks on the page manually.

And there are online converters, of course, which I'm sure you've tried.


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It also depends Jan 26, 2023

It also depends on the PDF file. Here, I took a PDF file and converted it using various methods, so that you can see what the different programs produce (perhaps also give you an idea of what is realistic out there).

Original PDF:

pdf

Microsoft Word 365:

word

Abbyy FineReader:

abbyy

So, amazingly, Microsoft Word 365's converted caught most of the text, followed by Abby FineReader in second place. The other three methods I tried did not manage to extract all of the text, in this particular case. But YMMV depending on the specific PDF file.


Adobe's online converter:

adobe online converter

Trados:

trados

ilovepdf.com online converter:

ilovepdf dot com

[Edited at 2023-01-26 14:24 GMT]


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Good free PDF converter Jan 26, 2023

Convertio works fine for me and has helped me several times to convert PDFs into editable Word files.

 
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