Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Catch of The Day - Convert PDFs to Editable Text Online Free - 10/5/2011

Sometimes it's useful or necessary to be able to edit the text in a PDF document in MS Office, OpenOffice, Pages, or whatever word processor you prefer. Here are a pair of free online tools, ABBYY FineReader Online and PDF to Word Free, that will make it possible for you to grab the text from that PDF (or other types of documents) and convert it into an editable format.


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ABBYY FineReader Online converts multipage documents to editable text while retaining the table of contents, footnotes, page numbers, and other structure elements. Character and format recognition includes retention of paragraphs, bullet points, tables, and more.

A variety of image input formats are supported inсluding image PDFs, TIFF, JPEG, and others. A number of available output formats allows you to convert your documents to plain text, Word (DOC/DOCX), Excel (XLS/XLSX), searchable PDF, and RTF.

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I used a 5-page PDF document to test conversions into plain text and into an editable Word document. The text recognition was quick and accurate. The look and structure of the Word document differed somewhat from the original and images were not retained. ABBYY FineReader Online also processed the text in a screenshot of a web page very accurately.


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Nitro Software’s PDF to Word Free converts individual PDF files one at a time online into editable Microsoft Word documents using Nitro's OCR technology. Nitro’s conversion engine detects the structure of a document and uses Microsoft Word’s own formatting tools to create a new, editable version that matches most formatting like bold, italics, colors, paragraphs, and size.

With my test document, PDF to Word Free did a very good job retaining the look of the original document including images, however it did not convert hyperlinks. The 5-page document which contained several images was processed and available very quickly. You do not have a choice of formats for either input (PDF only) or output (MS Word only).

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