If you are a student who downloaded paper from an online biology journal and want to use a table for your term paper. But the paper is in PDF format so what to do? It is the situation most people stuck with when using PDF files. However it is not easy to do? I often saw posts like “How to use a picture of PDF files?” Then I will give you the suitable way to solve this kind of trouble.
Generally there are 3 ways most used when you need to reuse PDF files:
1. Copy and Paste Directly
The basic and cost-free way especially when you just quote short sentences from PDF files. You can open a PDF reader, select the paragraph you want and click Edit->Copy (CTRL C), then paste (CTRL V) to word. You can apply the same method to images easily, but the placement and page layout need to be adjusted and will take a little time.
2. Type the Content Again
If the PDF file you need has a restriction from the author, then you just have the right to view. There is no way to copy and edit. Some people stuck with it and have no method other than typing the content words by words. It is the most troublesome way. Sometimes the PDF file assigned to you is large you maybe need to type a whole day.
3. Convert PDF to Word
With PDF contains text, images and tables all together, then converting PDF to word is the best choice. Once converted to word, you can extract what you want freely. You don’t need to retype or reformat the layout, image placement, table settings. Thus you need a good, easy-to-use PDF converter, maybe not fully featured like Adobe Acrobat Professional. However, the followings are some important features need to be considered when selecting PDF converters.
Conversion quality: Text content, layout, images, tables and even hyperlinks should be retained .The resulting file should be almost the same as the original PDF.
Batch conversion: Import and convert more than one file a time will cut down time wastage than converting one by one.
Page selection: If you want to use only 3 pages from a 500-page PDF Ebook, you can choose page range and convert these pages.
Restriction remove: You may need to remove the restriction in order to use the content.
To search up in Google, you will find there are lots of PDF converters in the market. The price varies from $20 to $100. Some PDF converters have additional functions: like serve as a PDF reader (Nitro PDF) or convert PDF to Word by select specific regions (Able2Doc). You can choose the most suitable software depended on your requirements. Now I’d like to recommend PDF to Word. This software is easy to use and provides fast and accurate conversion, with the four features mentioned above. The price is under $30, which is affordable during the recession time.
By using PDF converter, you can save hundreds or even thousands of hours per year. Time is money. Just download PDF converter free for trial from http://www.anypdftools.com.
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