Today I got a PDF document from a client that I needed to fill out and hand back in digitally. The PDF did not feature any inputboxes so editting the PDF was not an option. I found myself pondering the remaining options:
- Print --> Fill out --> Scan --> Hand in.
I didn't really like the first option, I'm in IT....I dont write stuff .
- Retype the entire document and fill it out digitally, and hand it back in.
I'm in IT, i don't retype stuff.
- Convert the PDF back to word.
So that only left me with option 3, converting the pdf to word.
There are many word to pdf converters out there, but I never really looked for something that does the opposite.
A small Bing resulted in www.pdftoword.com
After uploading the PDF and entering my email address, I got an e-mail in no more than a minute containing my PDF as a Word document.
I was dumbstruck by the quality of the conversion of the form, so I uploaded another 77 page PDF and had that converted aswell.
Even this large document with lots of tables was converted perfectly.....well almost....
- Footer and Header recognition: footers and headers are not recognized, and are just text on each page. It would be really nice if these could be recognized and put into the word document as a footer or a header.
- Heading and TOC recognition: It would be nice if headings (chapters and paragraphs) could be recognized by PDFtoWord. Then they could also create a TOC instead of just text.
Hope someone finds this service usefull to.
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