{"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":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I usually produce reports as PDF files &#8211; 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. <!--more--><br \/>\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 &#8211; <a title=\"PDF to Word\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pdftoword.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDFtoWord<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>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.<br \/>\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<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The complexity meant that the conversion took a while &#8211; probably an hour or so, but tables came back with the exact look of the original and very &#8220;clean&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">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 <a title=\"Irfanview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irfanview.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IrfanView<\/a> for cropping.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is also a sister product PDFtoExcel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually produce reports as PDF files &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[272],"class_list":{"0":"post-318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-pdf","7":"tag-pdf","8":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}