PDF A File Conversion Into a Word File

At Markzware, we understand the PDF format inside-and-out and can attest that, once something is created to PDF a file, it is much more difficult to get it back again into the native layout design, conversion wise speaking of course. Here was an interesting post titled, “Converting a PDF to Word format” which said in part:

Most of us have successfully converted Microsoft Word documents to PDF using Acrobat’s built-in PDFMaker application. If the Word document is set up correctly, then text, links, and images appear as expected in the PDF.

But what if you want to (re)convert that PDF content back into Word format so that you can reuse the content? Judging from the comments in forums and on Acrobat help pages, many users want to do this. You can convert PDFs to other file formats by using the File > Export command in Acrobat. A description of how to do this and some tips from the Acrobat community are in this Acrobat Help topic, “Convert PDFs to Word, RTF, or other text formats“.
Source: http://www.graphicstart.com/item.php?itemid=1058720

Ok, fair enough, but how well does the “export to Word” command work in Acrobat? There are also numerous other third-party tools for effectively opening PDF files in Word. But here is the word of caution via an excellent post from Duff Johnson, titled, “Converting PDF to Word: Understanding the Problem.”

Which software accurately converts PDF to Word?”

Converting PDF to Word (or other word-processing applications, HTML or whatever) is not a simple, push-button affair, as almost everyone who has ever tried it knows (thus the questions).

Even so, most people are looking for a simple, push-button way to get the contents of a PDF into a Word file. What’s the typical experience? Documents with layouts even slightly more complex than vanilla paragraphs routinely convert into junk. End-users expect this task to be pretty easy – which explains why the tone of the typical inquiry may be characterized as “pained”.

Let’s take a moment to understand why converting PDF to Word is so problematic.

The factors influencing the quality of conversion from PDF to Word are, in descending order of significance:

1. The extent to which the document’s logical structures are represented within the PDF (tagging)
2. The complexity of the objects on the page (mathematics, charts, graphs, etc)
3. The complexity of the document layout
Source Post continues here: http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/duffjohnson/

Conversion is not always as easy as it appears. This is one reason Markzware’s converters for QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Publisher are so popular- it is a one-click, extremely accurate conversion (in most cases).  If you need an Adobe document converter (ID2Q), QuarkXPress converter (Q2ID), or Publisher converter (Pub2ID), Markzware has those products and more.

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