Why does PDF to Word usually fall apart?
A PDF doesn't keep its text as paragraphs and tables; it only knows where each letter is drawn on the page. Many converters pour those letters into Word one after another: a table becomes a list of numbers, columns run into each other, and a thirty-page catalogue turns into sixty pages.
Goftito's converter reads the page as a page: where each line sits, the rules of the tables, the colours of the cells, the pictures, and what repeats on every page. Then it builds the same thing in Word.
What Word keeps
- Each PDF page is a Word page of the same size, so the number of pages usually stays the same.
- Tables are real Word tables: merged cells, background colours and each cell's rules come from the PDF, and every cell can be edited.
- Paragraphs are real paragraphs, with each word's bold and colour, and the text can be edited.
- What repeats on every page becomes Word's header and footer, and the page number counts itself.
- Pictures stay where they were.
How to convert a PDF to Word
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Sign in
Open “PDF to Word” in the tools section.
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Give it the PDF
Drop or choose the file. Unlock a password-protected PDF first.
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Convert
Press “Convert to Word”; the work runs in the background.
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Download the Word file
Take the DOCX and open it in Word or any other editor.
Where a picture remains
Display formulas, charts, diagrams and words printed on a picture come into Word as images, so their shape doesn't break; those parts aren't editable. The rest of the page is editable text.