Wednesday, May 6, 2009

How to edit PDF without PDF editor?

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Imagine that you are a lawyer who received a contract from your co-worker in PDF format and find there are several crucial items need to be modified. You do not have the original copy in word and your coworker is now on a vacation you cannot even connect him now. The contract is urgent, then what to do next?

Generally, there are two methods to edit PDF files nowadays: editing in PDF editor, converting PDF to Word.

Editing in PDF Editor

Editing in PDF editor maybe the first thought occurred to many of us, actually it is not easy as it sounds to be. First of all, you must have a PDF editor in advance, but mostly of them are quite expensive. Take Adobe Acrobat Professional for example, it charges more than $200 which may exceed your budget. Secondly, you need to take time to learn all the features of the software and know how to use it. Some people find that Adobe Acrobat Professional is too complicated. You may spend a lot of time finding the options which can track and highlight spelling mistakes. However, you can easily do it in Microsoft Word automatically. Lastly, you may download a PDF file with author password. The author set to restrict others from copying, editing or printing. You still cannot edit the file without the right password.

Converting PDF to Word

Another way is converting PDF to Word. You can convert a PDF file to Word and then edit in Word. Almost everyone has a Word processing and knows how to use it efficiently. Editing in Word is much easier than in PDF editors.

What you need is a good PDF to Word converter to achieve your goal. When selecting it, the first thing you consider is conversion quality. You need to convert all the elements, not only text, but also images, tables, hyperlinks or even equations. Then you can edit whatever you need. The second is all the elements converted in word, like image needs to be editable. Some PDF converters convert PDF to a merged image in word. All the images are locked to the background. Then you still cannot edit it well.

There are many PDF converters in the market. As criterions mentioned above, I would like to recommend two good PDF converters:

Free PDF to Word Converter

HelloPDF is totally free, although you may be asked to answer the complicated math question to get a just-for-once registration code. After a period of time, it happens every time before your conversion.

PDF Converter with restriction remover

PDF to Word is not a free tool. But it has restriction remover feature. Sometimes the PDF files downloaded from Internet have restriction to prevent others from copying, editing, and printing. You need urgently for research or other noncommercial use. However, it may be impossible to contact and ask for the permission. Thanks to this PDF converter, you can solve the dilemma easily. You can download and install it for a free trial.

Converter Word to PDF Back

Finally don not forget to convert Word to PDF again. There are many online free creators that are fairly simple and cost-free. There is a better way. If you have Microsoft Word 2007, you can use plug-in in word 2007, which allow you to save as PDF.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

How to convert PDF to Word files?

If you are designing a book for online publishing, you need to edit the PDF formatted Ebook. But you have lost the original word format. So what to do? Many people stuck with this trick situation. If you have a full version of Adobe Acrobat, you can edit it right away. However, it is too expensive to afford. You can convert PDF to Word using a good PDF converter. Then you can edit the word file and to create PDF again. I'd like to recommend PDF to Word, and I will show you how to use it.

Download PDF to Word from http://www.anypdftools.com/, and install it. Follow these 4 steps and you will be able to convert any PDF document to Microsoft Word, even restriction limited PDF files.

Step #1 Open PDF to Word
Click on the icon to launch the program.

Step #2 Import PDF files
Click Add PDF File(s) button and browse your files to locate the PDF files you want to convert. Or simply drag and drop your files onto the PDF to Word user interface.


You can import multiple files at a time. Then filename and file size will be shown on the main panel.

You can remove wrongly imported files using Remove button. Or you can delete all the files using Remove All button.


Step #3 Customize options
You can set options on the right of the panel for your special requirement.


Step #4 Convert files
When everything is ready, you can just click Convert button, and customize destination path for resulting Word files. Then the program will convert for you. Just wait a few seconds.



A status bar will show on the panel to indicate the process of the current conversion.

If you want to stop while PDF to Word converting files, simply click Stop button.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

3 Must-Know Ways to Reuse Text, Images, Tables in PDF Files

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.