{"id":318,"date":"2009-06-18T11:59:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T01:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2019-04-17T16:30:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T06:30:57","slug":"converting-pdf-to-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Converting PDF files to Word and Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually produce reports as PDF files – its great as it retains the exact formatting, including pagination and special fonts. Levels of security can also be embedded. However, I sometimes need to convert a PDF file to be used on a word processor like Microsoft Office.
\nThere are a number of free on-line tools, but most of them give a very manged interpretation of the PDF document. One stands out in terms of accuracy – PDFtoWord<\/a><\/p>\n

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You simply browse for the PDF file you want to convert and the web-page uploads it, converts it to your choice of PDF or RFT and emails it back to you. Easy.
\nI uploaded a complex PDF document with tables and charts made by Excel and the returned doc and rtf files (around 1 Mb) were perfect images of the original PDF file.<\/p>\n

The complexity meant that the conversion took a while – probably an hour or so, but tables came back with the exact look of the original and very “clean”.<\/p>\n

Charts came back, not as charts, but a complex assemblage of text boxes that fitted together to make the chart, though to me I would rather they were embedded graphics, like would have occurred in the original. I guess I could do a screen grab from either the original PDF or the converted file (Control\/Print Screen) and then paste screen for trimming into a fast graphics editor like IrfanView<\/a> for cropping.<\/p>\n

There is also a sister product PDFtoExcel.<\/p>\n

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