Paste from pdf to word. Life hack

The PDF format is very popular. Various journals, e-books, scientific papers, and other documents are published in this format. But, PDF also has disadvantages. For example, you can't just open a PDF file in Word or another popular text editor. Therefore, if it becomes necessary to edit a PDF file, then most users face the problem of how to convert PDF to Word. In this article, we will try to help solve this problem by looking at several ways to convert PDF files to Word format.

There are a number of online services that allow you to perform online conversions. Online conversion is a very convenient way, since for this the user does not need to install any additional programs on his computer.

One of the most popular services for converting PDF files to Word format is on the site. In order to use this service, you need to follow the specified link. After that, you need to use a special form to select a PDF file on your computer and click on the "Convert" button.

After the conversion process is completed, the service will automatically start downloading the Word file, which we managed to get from your PDF.

You can also use other services to convert PDF files:

They all work on a similar principle, download a PDF file, wait for the service to perform the conversion and download the resulting file in Word format.

PDF to Word converters

Another way to convert PDF to Word is conversion using special programs. There are quite a few such programs. In this article we will take a look at the UniPDF program as it is completely free. You can download this program.

The UniPDF program has a simple and intuitive interface, so it's not difficult to figure it out. In order to convert PDF to Word you need to drag the PDF into the program window, select the format into which you want to convert this PDF, and then click on the "Convert" button.

After that, the program will ask you to specify the folder in which you want to save the resulting Word file.

After selecting the folder, the program will start the conversion process. After the end of this process, a window should appear prompting you to open the Word file.

There are also other programs for converting PDF to Word:

First PDF ();
VeryPDF PDF to Word Converter ();

But, these programs are paid, so we do not consider them in this article.

How to convert PDF to Word using Google Disk

Another conversion option is the Google Disk service. One of the functions of this service is the conversion of uploaded PDF files. To take advantage of this opportunity, open Google Disk in your browser and load your PDF file into it.

After the PDF file has loaded, right-click on it and select "Open with - Google Docs" in the menu that appears.

After that, your PDF file should open in front of you. Now you can convert it to Word format. For this, the menu "File - Download as - Microsoft Word".

After that, the resulting Word file will be downloaded to your computer. Unfortunately, the conversion using the Google Disk service works worse than the previous methods described. Therefore, it should be considered as a fallback.

Electronic PDF documents are read-only. You will not be able to simply take and edit such a document - for this you have to install special software, for example, the bulky and expensive Adobe Acrobat. Individual elements of a PDF file can also be edited in Word 2013 and 2016. But what about those who use earlier versions of this editor?

No, you don't have to install or update anything, there are better ways. Today we'll talk about how to translate PDF to Word using free online services.

PDF to DOC

If you try to open the PDF file in Word 2010 in the usual way, most likely, instead of text and pictures, you will see "krakozyabry":

This is a mess. To bring the document back to normal, let's "feed" it to the first online converter of our review - PDFtoDoc.

To upload a PDF file to the site, press the button of the same name or drag it to the field highlighted in the screenshot. After 5-20 minutes (sometimes longer - it depends on the file size), you can pick up the finished result. To do this, click on the button " Download", Which will appear below the document, or" Download All". The service can simultaneously convert up to 20 files.

The result of converting a PDF document containing graphics, text, drawings and tables (schematic diagram) to DOC format did not disappoint me. Yes, it was not without distortion. The fonts have become larger than in the original, and from this certain groups of words have shifted a little, but the general structure and readability of the scheme are completely preserved:

Conversion to DOCX format (on the next tab) gave the same result - no better and no worse. The only difference is that the size of the final file is 5 times smaller.

The disadvantage of the service, which I noted for myself, is that the download is too slow. The 30MB Word file took about 10 minutes to download to my computer.

SmallPDF

To e-service SmallPDF, I liked more than the previous one. The same circuit was processed about 2 times faster and loaded back in a matter of seconds. The structure of the document, as in the first case, has remained unchanged, but there are fewer distortions in it.

Using SmallPDF is very easy too:

Load or drag the PDF file to the selected field. By the way, the service supports uploading documents from Dropbox and Google Drive.
Click " Convert».
Download the result to your computer or save it to your Dropbox or Google Drive.

Of the shortcomings of SmallPDF, only two are worth noting. The first is limiting the free version to two downloads per hour (unlimited subscription usage costs $ 4-6 per month). The second is to save the result only in DOCX format.

Google docs

Those who are used to Google services such as Google Drive and Docs can also use them to convert PDF documents to Word (DOCX only). This option is good in that it does not put any restrictions on either the number or size of files, or the time of use, but in terms of conversion quality it is much inferior to both predecessors. The built-in editor handles PDFs well, which contain only solid text. It does not accept lists, tables, graphs, pictures and other elements of structure and formatting.

The order for converting PDF to Word is as follows:

Sign in to your Google account.
Open the content of your Google Drive in your browser, find the PDF document you need, click on it with the "right mouse" and select " To open with» – « GoogleDocs».

If you are out of date what you see on the screen, go to the menu " File"Google Docs Editor, select" Download as" and " MicrosoftWord (DOCX)».

That's the whole conversion.

Convert Online Free

To e-service ConvertOnlineFree converts PDFs to both DOC-format and DOCX. Processes files one at a time. The source should not weigh more than 50 Mb. Immediately after the conversion, which takes 3-15 minutes, it sends the result to the folder " Downloads"Browser.

In terms of functionality, Convert Online Free was fine for me, however, what happened after processing the circuit, the one I used to test other services, did not make me happy. Some of the pages turned out to be in portrait orientation (in the original, everything was in landscape orientation), the right side in many places turned out to be empty, and the text that should be there moved to the next sheet.

Standard Converter

Last online resource - StandardConverter, converts PDF to DOC only. Information about restrictions on the size and number of uploaded files is not contained here - this is a plus. Processing the experimental scheme took about the same amount of time as the others - which is also not bad, but the result was even worse than that of Convert Online Free.

The original formatting is only partially preserved. The original appearance remained at 2 or 3 pages, the rest of the program tore "on the British flag" and smeared over several sheets.

Perhaps, Standard Converter, like Google Docs, should be used for processing simpler documents.

According to the test results, PDF to DOC and SmallPDF coped with the task best. In second place is Convert Online Free, and third is shared by Google Docs and Standard Converter. However, judging by one document about the operation of the service as a whole is probably not worth it. Try them yourself - your results may not be the same as mine.

Thanks to the PDF format, we always see the same document wherever we open it. If Microsoft Office documents can look different even in different versions of the office, then I am not talking about the presence of fonts in the system at all. However, PDF is almost impossible to edit, so many users ask the question of how to translate a PDF document into Word with minimal loss and, if possible, without installing third-party programs.

Why do we love Microsoft Word? - Of course, for its ease of use ... now I will tell you how, without using third-party programs, to convert a document from PDF to Word in a couple of clicks!

I think everyone knows that PDF is the brainchild of Adobe (like Flash Player) and native programs for working with this format are Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC. All of them can easily convert PFD to Word, but only Acrobat DC costs money, and Acrobar Reader needs a paid subscription ... therefore, we will not consider these options - there are alternative options (albeit a little longer, but without cracks and activators)

However, if you already have Acrobat installed (not Acrobat Reader), it’s stupid not to use it - you can convert PDF to Word in the “Export” menu

How to open a PDF file in Word

The easiest way to convert PDF to editable Word is to open the document we need in MS Word itself. Of course, the final version is quite often very different from the initial one, but if the point of conversion was to pull out the text, then the version is definitely working.

On the Word ribbon, click the File button

In the action menu that opens, select "Open" and "Browse", where in the explorer you must indicate where our PDF file is located.

A pipette will appear what a wide window (which does not fit on every screen) with a warning that the final document may look completely different from what the author intended. Please note that the original PDF file will remain intact. Click the "OK" button

Of course, the open version in Word, to put it mildly, is a little different from my original document, but it is now possible to pull out text information from the document - otherwise why should we distill it into doc? You can also view the document in Acrobat.

As you can see, Word itself is quite good at converting PDF into a digestible format for editing, and there is nothing complicated about it - I opened it and waited, the edited text is output.

How to convert a document from PDF to Word (Google Docs)

If you still ignore Google Docs ... then you probably are not aware of the service's capabilities and, in particular, about converting PDF to Word document. The conversion process is divided into two stages:

Create a document from our PDF file in Google Docs
Export it to Word

As you can see, there is absolutely nothing complicated - even the presence of MS Word on the computer is optional ... everything happens online (and sometimes, instead of Word, users have OpenOffice installed and the first option is impossible to implement)

Opening Google Disk (of course you must have a Google account) and in the upper left corner we find the "Create" button

In the menu that opens, we say that we need to create a document from a file (Upload files) ... well, then in the window that opens, select our PDF file that needs to be converted to doc.

After we have uploaded our PDF file to Google Disk, right-click on it and in the menu that appears, select "Open with" "Google Docs"

We are waiting for the document to open and in the menb ribbon press "File" "Download as" "Microsoft Word" - and choose where to save the converted file.

The most common Word document will be loaded onto the computer, with which we already know how to work. Of course, the paperwork can suffer so severely ... but what did you expect ?!

conclusions

As you can see, there is nothing difficult in translating a PDF document into Word. Of course, with a high degree of probability, we will lose part of the document layout, but there is nothing we can do about it. By the way, if the document is PDF sewn from scanned images, then there is no point in opening it in Word - to get the text out of it you need to use OCR programs like FineReader.

Very often, you and I need to convert from PDF to Word. There can be many reasons for this. For example, you have found the text you need for further editing, but it is in PDF format. It is impossible to edit the file in this format, therefore, for these purposes, we need to convert it to the DOC or DOCX format, which will be available for editing in the Word text editor. When converting a PDF file, it is very important that the original formatting of the text is preserved, otherwise there may be big problems after the conversion and in the end it will turn out so that it would be easier to retype the text manually. We will convert PDF to Word using Adobe Reader and an online service. But let's first take a closer look at what PDF and WORD are.

What are the formats PDF and Word.

PDF (Portable Document Format)- a special format of electronic documents, which was created by Adobe System. Typically, PDF format files are any kind of document. Accordingly, editing of documents is not provided. Therefore, you have probably downloaded various magazines, books and textbooks in this format more than once. A pdf document can contain both text and graphics.

Therefore, in order to be able to use text from electronic documents, we need to translate it into the format of the word processor Word.

Microsoft Word (or just Word)- a text editor that is designed to create and edit text files. MS Word is developed and published by Microsoft and is included in the Microsoft Office software package.

How to install Adobe Reader.

In order to convert from PDF to Word, we need to download and install the Adobe Reader program.

We can download it from the official website: Adobe Reader.

Go to the site, on the main page, uncheck the boxes "Install McAfee utility" and "Install True Key by Intel Security".
We press the button "Install now". A new window will open in which the program installer will be downloaded.
After starting the installer, we are waiting for the download of the necessary files from the network and the installation of Adobe Reader.
At the end of the installation, click the "Finish" button and the program will start if you did not uncheck the corresponding box.

How to convert from PDF to Word using Adobe Reader.

After our program is installed and launched, you can familiarize yourself with its functionality. Initially, Adobe Acrobat had functions for reading documents, but now its functionality is overgrown with editing capabilities.

Note! After installing the Adobe Acrobat tools in the Word text editor, the Acrobat button appears on the toolbar. When you click on this button, a toolbar for working with PDF files will appear.

Now let's get down to the actual process of converting a PDF file to Word.

To do this, open the pdf file we need through the menu of the installed Adobe Acrobat DC.

After the settings have been made, press the "Export" button
In the window that appears, you need to come up with a name for the file.

After running the Adobe Acrobat DC program, your electronic document will be converted to Word format, thereby you can edit it in the future. The program can convert not only text, but also images from PDF to Word, so you don't have to worry about adding pictures to the created file, the program will do everything for you. Adobe Acrobat DC can convert PDF to WORD and scanned photos and text.

Sometimes a PDF does not need all of the text, but only a small portion of it. To convert this piece of text to doc format, you need to select a piece of text, then press CTRL + C and press CTRL + V in the open MS Word editor. The copied text will be pasted in Word with the same formatting as in the electronic document.

Convert PDF document to Word using online services.

You can also convert from PDF to Word using online services. There are a lot of such services on the Internet. I bring to your attention one of them. Service http://pdf2doc.com/ru/

In order to convert an electronic document into Word format, go to the service page. As you can see, there are various options for converting the PDF file to choose from. In order to upload an electronic document, press the "Upload" button or drag and drop the file into a special area of the page. After the file is uploaded, it will be automatically converted and you will be prompted to download the file in Word format.
Thus, with the help of this service, we were able to easily convert from PDF to Word in a couple of mouse clicks.

Conclusion.

That's all for me, now you know how to convert from PDF to Word. At the same time, you do not need to apply any special knowledge, you will find everything you need in this article. You can easily convert various e-books, magazines and textbooks to Word format. If you use other methods, then write in the comments.