How to convert PDF files to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, and Text on Windows platforms

Import PDF files
Download and install PDF Converter . Drag your PDF files into the program. And they will appear in the program as below.

How to convert PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, and Text with 3 simple steps?

Step 1 Launch PDF Converter

Launch PDF Converter by double click on your desktop.

Step 2 Import PDF files

Click Add Files ?and browse your computer files to locate the PDF files to be converted. You can import as many as 200 files in this program. After the files are imported, the file information will be shown in the panel.

Click the tab on the top of the window to select the type of conversion: PDF to Word, PDF to Excel, PDF to PowerPoint, PDF to EPUB, PDF to HTML, or PDF to Text.

Step 3. Convert PDF

Just click the Convert button, and wait for a little while, you will get the files as you want.

During the conversion, you can terminate converting the files by clicking the Cancel button where the Convert button is.

After the conversion is completed, a dialogue box will pop up, informing you the conversion is finished. You could click Open to go to the destination folder.

How to perform OCR to scanned PDF files?
OCR is only available within PDF Converter Pro. To convert scanned PDF with PDF Converter Pro, just follow the steps below:

Step 1 Launch PDF Converter Pro

Double click the quick start icon on the desktop to launch the program, you can find a small OCR sliding button at the lower-right corner of the interface. OCR function is enabled by default when the button is on the right.

Note: OCR can help you convert scanned PDF to text-based documents. If the PDF you need to convert are normal PDF files but not scanned ones, you can slide the button to the left to disable the OCR function, which can help you convert PDF files quicker.

Step 2. Import PDF files and choose output format

Drag your scanned PDF files to PDF Converter Pro. Click on the tab above the panel to choose output format for conversion: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB, HTML, or Text.

Step 3. Choose recognition languages

Before conversion, you need to click Options button below the panel to choose the right languages for the output contents. This is necessary because wrongly-selected output languages of the text on the scanned PDF can't be displayed properly.

Note: Supported recognition languages are: English, Turkish, Greek, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Romanian, and Catalan.

Step 4. Convert scanned PDF files

After you finish the steps above, just click Convert button and PDF Converter Pro can perform OCR and convert scanned PDF files to the text-based document format you choose in a short while.

Flexible output options for converting PDF to Excel, EPUB, and HTML

After you select the output format and the Option button below the panel will be enabled when you choose Excel, EPUB, or HTML. Click the button, and you can customize the output Excel spreadsheets, EPUB files, or HTML pages:

PDF to Excel:

Retain value without formatting: is the default option. It saves all the original text, numbers in PDF tables to Excel cells after converting PDF to Excel, without preserving the original formatting.

Retain original formatting of forms: allow you to preserve text, numbers and formatting in the original PDF file. This option is not suitable for some un-regular PDF tables, as there might be some positioning error that may affect the usual calculation after conversion.

PDF to HTML:

HTML Settings: Allow you to customize background color of the output HTML pages, and you can also choose whether to keep the hyperlinks in the original files or not

Image Settings: Option for you to customize images within the original file for the output HTML pages.

How to convert encrypted PDF files?

You can import encrypted PDF files with copying and printing restrictions into the program and convert the files directly without knowing the password. And if your PDF file is encrypted with Open Password, there will be a small lock icon beside the PDF file once you imported into the program.

Just click the lock icon and type in the password in the pop-up box, and the encrypted PDF file is unlocked for conversion. Then just click theConvert button and you can successfully convert the encrypted PDF file to the format you need.

How to convert partial pages from large PDF files?
To convert partial pages from large PDF, you need to click on the Selected Pages column and type in the page number within the PDF for conversion.

How to arrange converting priority for the imported PDF files?
To arrange the converting priority for the imported PDF, you just need to drag the PDF up and down to make them priority-ranked.

About OCR
Optical Character Recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, to computerize a record-keeping system in an office, or to publish the text on a website. OCR makes it possible to edit the text, search for a word or phrase, store it more compactly, display or print a copy free of scanning artifacts, and apply techniques such as machine translation, text-to-speech and text mining to it.

PDF Converter Pro lets you accurately transfer scanned paper documents (in PDF format) to fully-formatted electronic documents for easy editing, adapting, archiving and sharing. It delivers superior recognition accuracy and format preservation even on multiple scanned paper documents, including faxes, legal documents, documents with long tables, multiple and complex image items (e.g. magazine pages) and many more. It allows you to digitize documents and dramatically optimize the process with literally no retyping and reformatting.

PDF Converter Pro includes all the features of PDF Converter, and adds new OCR function, which can extract text from scanned PDF to familiar Office documents and more popular formats.

Included features of PDF Converter
Convert normal PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB, HTML, and Text
Preserve all the text, tables, images, graphic, hyperlinks, layouts and formatting

Flexible output options to customize output files

efficient conversion modes - batch conversion and partial conversion

Convert copying and printing restricted PDF files without requiring the password

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