[Technology] PDF to Word editable text converter?

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Sorry for the incredibly boring thread but I'm not great with IT and as I know there are a number of IT experts on NSC, I was hoping for some assistance!

As the title suggests, I need to convert some locked PDF documents to Word with editable text rather than just converting them to images. I can't seem to find anything on Google that works for free. Any suggestions? Or is it something you have to sign up and pay for?

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

https://www.pdftoword.com/

I’ve used this before, not sure if it will work on password locked files though and it does have some page/file size limit so may not be suitable for everything. But it’s worth a try.

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

https://www.pdftoword.com/

I’ve used this before, not sure if it will work on password locked files though and it does have some page/file size limit so may not be suitable for everything. But it’s worth a try.

Thanks, yeah I tried that one but it just converts the text as images so I can't edit it.

 

[beorhthelm]

my memory is the free ones are poor. the one i used in past doesnt seem available anymore (and i cant quite recall, pdf360 i thought). if the PDF is not supposed to be edited it may not be possible unless you get into some techy tools

 

[Is it PotG?]

Acrobat Pro.

 

[father_and_son]

Acrobat Pro.

This.

Pretty much the purpose of PDF documents is to create something small and portable that can't be edited.

Adobe Acrobat Pro is specifically created to undo the compression and locking that Adobe Reader won't do. Everything else will in some way be inferior.

There are OCR apps that will read text but won't keep pictures and I've run some on entire book-sized docs but it is far from ideal.

 

[Seagull58]

In Adobe PDF Reader if you select Export PDF on the RHS you can get a free 7 day trial of Adobe PDF convertor

 

[Cheshire Cat]

You could always retype the text in Word

 

[Superphil]

I use this site for various pdf conversions, compressing and stuff. Might do what you need to do.

https://smallpdf.com/pdf-converter

There are plenty of online places you can get the password/protection removed from your pdf too.

 

[Monsieur Le Plonk]

Sorry for the incredibly boring thread but I'm not great with IT and as I know there are a number of IT experts on NSC, I was hoping for some assistance!

As the title suggests, I need to convert some locked PDF documents to Word with editable text rather than just converting them to images. I can't seem to find anything on Google that works for free. Any suggestions? Or is it something you have to sign up and pay for?

Also need to unlock some pdfs so very useful thread. Thanks