Free PDF to Word Converter (pdfburger.com)

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Word 2013 does this for me automatically. Does this do a better job of formatting them?

Impressive! It converted a 500 page long book in under a minute, and the layout looks good. Even the small borders around the informational fact-boxes look good.

yukkurishite 12y ago ↗

I'd rather have a normal program to do this. Too bad there isn't one.

mpweiher 12y ago ↗

PDF to RTF? There are several, mine (TextLightning) has been around since 2001: http://www.metaobject.com/Products/

TimGremalm 12y ago ↗

*It doesn't produce word-format, it produces RTF-format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format

ygra 12y ago ↗

The RTF feature set and Word's are closely aligned. You can do everything you can do in Word in RTF too.

jmpeax 12y ago ↗

Still looking for a PDF to Word converter than can do pdflatex compiled documents... equations, figures, layout, etc. This is one of the worst one's I've tried.

ygra 12y ago ↗

Given that LaTeX is really impossible to reverse once it hits a PDF I doubt that's easy. With some configurations (or LaTeX versions or moon phases, I haven't figured it out) you even get PDFs that contain no text at all because the glyphs don't map to characters anymore. Add into that that each LaTeX PDF contains between 5 and 20 fonts and it gets worse.

XeLaTeX makes things much better, but I guess equations are still very much off-limits.