Today I'm going to answer a
common question I often get. How to convert a PDF file
into a Word document, so I can edit it. Now, there are plenty of solutions
and converters out there, but I'm going to show you a
proven solution that will work. (upbeat music) All you need is Microsoft
Word in a desktop version. Anything starting from Word
2013 and later will do. It's super simple. So let's say you have
this PDF document here, which you want to edit
and make some changes to. All you have to do is open Microsoft Word, click on open, and then browse for your file. In my case, I have it right here,
because I pinned it before. Alternatively, you can
also just drag it here, then Word will convert the document. You'll get this message informing you that depending on the
size of the document, this could take a while, and that the result might not look exactly like the original PDF. Just click on OK and that's it. It did an excellent
job converting the text and even most of the formatting is like it was in the original PDF. So that's it, simple as that. Now I can edit the document as I like, then I can re save it as PDF if I need to. When you use this conversion, you'll find that the results could vary. Sometimes the quality of the conversion will be almost perfect,
like in my example. But sometimes it will
be off to some degree. Now the main reason for that will probably be the difference between a true or native PDF
document versus a scanned PDF. A native PDF is a vector based file that was created from
an electronic document and saved as a PDF. It contains electronic code, and so converting such a
PDF file to a Word document will give you the best results. Now, on the other hand, a scanned PDF is a raster based file without any electronic code. For example here, I have the exact same contract as a PDF. But this time I printed it out
and then scanned it as PDF. Scanning essentially results in an image as if you took a photo
of it with your phone. When you convert such a PDF to word the result is not going to be perfect. Let's try to convert this
printed and scanned version to word. Click on OK. And here it is. You see it didn't pick up
the bold formatting here. And sometimes the font size is off and the numbering in some
cases needs some editing. But the conversion of the text is the same as in the native PDF example. As you can see, the conversion for both
native and scanned PDF was generally easy and fast too. For the native conversion, the outcome was almost perfect. If you have a scanned PDF, the results will depend on
the quality of the printout and the quality of the scan. And generally formatting and
graphics will not convert well. In case you have images
that you want to convert into Word or Excel, check out this video which shows you how you can easily do it with just your phone and a free app. I hope you found today's video helpful. If you did, don't forget
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