How to Convert PDF to Word – Two Ways to Convert PDFs for Free - Adobe vs Word Comparison

today i'm going to show you two ways that you can convert a pdf document into a word document one way is using microsoft word to convert the pdf and the other way is using adobe's online pdf to word converter tool while both of these options work we're going to take a look at a comparison side by side of the results so you can see which tool does a better job for the purposes of today's video i'm using a sample annual report pdf and if you're converting a pdf into word so that you can edit it just make sure that you have the rights to do so alright so we've got our pdf document saved on our computer and i'm going to come over here into microsoft word i have a blank document open and all i'm going to do is come up to file and click open and then i'm going to search for my annual report pdf that's on my desktop and i'm going to click open and once you click open a window is going to pop up in word asking you um just a little message saying word will now convert your pdf to an editable word document and it might take a few minutes depending on the complexity and how much formatting your graphics are in your document and it's letting you know that it may not be it may not look exactly like your pdf and you just click ok and we'll let word take a minute to convert the document all right so we can see that word took our pdf and if we scroll down we can see that it is now in a word document format it doesn't look exactly like the pdf um first especially the first page but you can see that it did convert into word and now as we scroll down we can um select it within the document and make edits as needed so it did do a good job in terms of the text areas of the document converting into a word document now let's go ahead and look at do the same thing we're going to convert this pdf into a word document using adobe's online pdf to word converter and i'll include a link in the description below this video just click show more on the description to expand the description there'll be a link in there and you can click on it and you'll be able to use the adobe tool to convert a pdf into a word document just a quick faq i'll also include a link to adobe's answers to some frequently asked questions about their service and you can convert one file online for free and then you also have the ability to log in for free and you have a certain limit of items that you can use their tools for free within certain time periods and so if you scroll down on their faq page it will explain how many times you can use their free tools but let's go ahead and use their converter tool and convert this pdf into a word document so i'm going to say select a file and i'm going to search on my desktop for my annual report template and click open adobe has exported into a little window here and we want to export it to a microsoft word document and so we're going to click export to docx and it will start to convert the pdf all right our file is ready and here it's giving us a preview of what that file looks like so already we can see especially on the first page that the adobe tool did a better job of converting some of those images and other graphics that were on the first page of the document and as we scroll down we see that it does look very similar to the pdf version so we want to make sure we want to go ahead and download this as a word document and take a look at it side by side so i clicked on my documents and here i can see the annual report to template that we just downloaded today i'm going to click the three buttons over here and click download now we can open up our document in microsoft word so now we've converted both word documents and we want to take a look at them comparison side by side so all we have to do is come up to view and we want to click on the button that says view side by side and as long as we have both of our documents open we can do that if we have more than these two documents open word will ask us to select which other document we want to view side by side and then it opens up this nice window here that we can um then take a look at these documents together so i'm going to scroll up and the one on the right here remember is the one that word converted from a pdf into a word document and the one on the left is the one that adobe converted so again the pdf itself had a had a graphic on the first page it had a table of contents on the second page and when you scrolled down you had text and information starting on page three and so when we come over back into our view of our side by side word documents and so here we see our two word documents side by side and we can see the difference in the two different ways to convert our pdfs so here on the left again is the adobe tool and it does look very very similar to the pdf version and when we have over here on the right is the word uh version where it did a good job with the text and um not so great with all of the other graphic images and some other complexities of the formatting of that pdf so hopefully you found this video helpful again i'll include the link in the description below the video so you'll be able to access the adobe converter for free again definitely check out the faqs on how you can use that tool moving forward i think it does a great job if you found this video helpful be sure and give it a thumbs up to like it you can subscribe to my channel and click the bell to receive a notification every time i post a new video be sure and visit my website at sharonsmithhr.com thanks so much for watching i look forward to seeing you all next time bye you

Channel: Sharon Smith

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Length: 6min 36sec (396 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 19 2021