Convert PDF to other formats
Sometimes the PDF is the problem — you need the content back in a form you can edit, reuse or index. These tools go the other way: Word and Excel when you have to change the text or work with the numbers, JPG and PNG when you need a page as an image for a slide or a website, HTML when the content is going online, and plain text when you only care about the words. How faithful the result is depends on the original: a PDF exported from a word processor converts cleanly, while a scan needs OCR first.
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Frequently asked questions
Why does my converted Word file look different?
A PDF stores positioned glyphs, not paragraphs, so the converter has to infer the structure. Documents with simple, linear layouts convert very closely; multi-column pages and complex tables need manual tidying.
Can I convert a scanned PDF to editable text?
Not directly — a scan is just an image. Run OCR on it first to add a text layer, then convert; otherwise you will get pages with no extractable text.
What resolution do the image conversions use?
Pages are rendered at a resolution suitable for screens and ordinary printing. Choose PNG when you need sharp edges on text and diagrams, and JPG when file size matters more.
Will tables come through into Excel?
Tables with clear ruled lines and consistent columns are detected well. Tables laid out only with whitespace are ambiguous even to a human reader, so expect to correct those.