How to Convert PDFs With Embedded Text Using Word If you can’t select text, then the PDF is scanned and needs to have OCR applied before you can convert it into a Word document. Let’s start with PDFs that don’t need OCR, in other words, PDFs with embedded text. The simplest way to convert your PDF is to open it in Microsoft Word and let Word convert the content. Open it as you would any other file in Word. Launch Word and go to File > Open and select your PDF. Or right-click on the file and select Open With > Microsoft Word. The file will likely take a moment to process and then open as an editable Word document. One more free app that I sometimes hear recommended for converting a PDF to Word is Google Docs. The instructions are similar to using Acrobat: Open the file for editing, and then download it in Word format. Every time I’ve tried it, though, the results were terrible. How to Convert a Scanned Document to Word FormatĮverything I’ve written so far focuses on PDFs that were exported from an app so that the text is embedded in the PDF. What can you do about converting PDFs made from a scanner or camera?ĭepending on the quality of the scanned image, you may be able to open it in Word, and Word’s built-in OCR may be able to create editable text.
I’ve had success with clear single-page images, but Word simply can’t handle anything complex, like a scan of a book, and tends to produce an unusable mix of text and images. In converting scanned images to editable text, Acrobat does a decent job of creating a PDF, but nothing comes close to the power of our Editors' Choice winner for OCR tools, ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 ($199). #PDF TO WORD CONVERTER FOR PC DOWNLOAD#.
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