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PDF-to-Word is a program to convert Adobe PDF documents into MS Word format. The main goal of the program is to produce MS Word document with a minimum loss of formatting information. It extracts paragraph alignment information, converts images and most of PDF drawing, command line support*, Adobe Acrobat is not required, easy-to-use wizard-style interface and full install/uninstall support. But PDF-to-Word has no optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities, does not convert scientific formulas and does not convert PDF links.
*Note: To perform batch conversion or call conversion procedure from an automation script you can use console version of PDF-to-Word called P2WAGENT.EXE. Find this file in PDF-to-Word installation folder. You can either run this tool directly from command line or call it from any script as well. You should specify path to the source file at least. If you omit the destination path parameter the program will generate it as the source file name without extension concatenated with “.doc”. In the following example the program converts Adobe PDF document “c:\my_document.pdf” into “c:\my_document.doc”:
P2WAGENT.EXE –src=c:\my_document.pdf –dest=my_document.doc
By default PDF-to-Word generates output compatible with Word 2000 and earlier. When viewing these files in Word XP, the images display 33% larger than their original size. If you have this problem, you should select “Make compatible with MS Word XP” check box on “Select files” wizard screen. PDF-to-Word does not require Adobe Acrobat. PDF-to-Word supports command line arguments and so it can handle batch conversion. Sometimes when fonts are embedded or subset within a PDF, the original font information is lost and the text is corrupted. Although PDF Acrobat or Reader will still display correctly, the correct text information is not available. In these cases PDF-to-Word failed to extract the correct text from your file. PDF-to-Word will only be able to extract text if it is available as text within the PDF document. It will not perform optical character recognition (OCR) procedure on scanned PDF document. However, if you use the free Paper Capture plug-in from Adobe.com to perform OCR on your PDF document, you can then use PDF-to-Word to convert the text it creates into MS Word format.
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