How to convert text from a pdf-file to editable Word document in 2013?
Tips Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Word 2013 offers a new feature - PDF Reflow, which allows you to import PDF-files in Word and edit text in Word document. You can re-save the file, or export the text of a document to PDF-File.
Note: PDF Reflow feature works best with text documents. If the document contains some graphic material, then you can lose them, since Word with this problem. At the opening in the Word file may take several minutes, it all depends on the file size.
To open PDF-File in Word, go to the "File" tab.
Next, click on the menu item "Open" in the drop-down menu and select "From a computer" if the file is located on your hard drive. You can also open a file from SkyDrive, or another location, using the "Add a place".
If you open the PDF-File from the hard drive, click on the right panel on "Recent Folders" or "Browse".
Locate the file and click "Open".
This will open a dialog box with information about the time it takes to open a PDF-file. Also, you will see a warning that if your document contains a lot of graphics, the result of the conversion will be different from the original.
Note: you can skip this dialog box next time by ticking the checkbox "Do not show this message again."
Next PDF-File will open in Word and you can edit it to fit you properly.
There are two ways to save the edited document back to PDF-File: either export or saving as a PDF-file. Below we will explain how to save a document in PDF format. If you want to export, then use the option "Export" tab "File" and select the PDF / XPS format.
To save a file, press the menu item "File" and select the item "Save As."
Choose a location where you want to save the file on SkyDrive, a hard disk or other location. We saved on the hard disk.
After you open the dialog box "Save As", navigate to the desired location to save the PDF-File and enter the file name in the "File name". Choose from the drop-down list, PDF format (*. PDF). The option "Options" will allow you the ability to configure the settings for your PDF-file.
Note: we recommend to save your edited PDF-files under a new name, leaving the original PDF-file without any changes.
Change the necessary settings for your PDF-file in the "Options" dialog box and click «OK» button.
Then you return to the dialog box "Save As" and save the file by clicking the "Save" button.
The new PDF-File will open automatically in a program for reading PDF-files.
To close the original PDF-File, select the tab "File" and then menu item "Close".
Next, a dialog box appears prompting you to save changes to the original PDF-File. Because we save the edited PDF-File with a new name, we do not want to save changes to the source code. Click "Do not Save" to keep the original file-PDF unchanged.
Done.