3 alternatives to copy text from pdf to word

17 avril 2012

3 alternatives to copy text from pdf to word

Have you ever met the problem: When you are looking for some material, such as paper, some are very decent information for you, and can’t wait to copy them into word, but unfortunately, they are both pdf formats. How can we copy the key datas into word?

Indeed, it is not a perfect method to copy text from PDF and paste into MS Word directly. Why? Imagine this: When you want to copy a large portion of content from a single PDF or from PDF with several or even probably hundreds of or thousands of pages, copying and pasting would probably takes you hours of longer to finish the tedious, boring work.

How can we settle this problem rightly? In this article, I will introduce 3 ways to you for copying text from PDF to Word.

Copy Text from PDF to Word with PDF to Text Converter

In this way, you'll need another program called iStonsoft PDF to Text Converter, a program that will export your PDF documents to plain text (.txt) files. It supports batch and partial conversion. And the operation steps are similar with the PDF to Word Converter in the first way. The only difference is, after converting PDF to TXT, you need to manually copy the converted TXT contents to MS word for viewing, editing, etc. More information and tutorial of PDF to Text Converter you can refer to: How to change PDF to Text.

Copy Text from PDF to Word with PDF Editor

In this way, the tool you need is PDF Editor, which enables you to directly copy text from PDF without converting. It will be as easy as you do in MS Word program. With PDF Editor, you can get more abilities to edit text in PDF document, such as text, font sizes, images and more.

Copy Text from PDF to Word with PDF to Word Converter

In this way, you'll need to rely on this program: iStonsoft PDF to Word Converter. It can convert PDF files to Word DOCX format with fast speed and great quality. It also supports batch and partial conversion. Within 3 simple steps, you can finish the conversion, and you'll be able to copy text from PDF to Word easily.

STEP 1 : Import the PDF files.
Just drag and drop them into the panel. You can add multiple files at one time.

STEP 2 : Make customizations.
You can set pages or page ranges for converting specific pages. And click Browse button to customize the output folder.

STEP 3 : Output PDF to Word
Start converting by clicking Convert button. Or right click to convert selected.