Copying text from pdf to MS Word?

Question

When we copy from pdf to MS Word, sentences breaks half-way and goes into next line. I have to keep the cursor at the end of each line and press delete button to put everything in order. It is tedious when we have to do this for numerous pages.

Is there some method by which we can adjust it automatically using some MSWord options?

Answer 1

The tools mentioned here sound good. If you don't want to use them or they can't work because your PDF file is password protected, you can do this:



1. Cut and paste the PDF text into MS Word.

2. Use Find/Replace to find the paragraph markers (when you attempt to do this, you should be able to search for a special character - the paragraph markers should be in there). As you find the paragraph markers, then replace them with a single space. You can do this automatically or one by one.



You'll lose the actual places where you want paragraphs though if you do it this way - so you'll need to go back and manually add the paragraphs.

Answer 2

Bloody hell. David N had a lot to say didn't he? PDF's are usually either converted from an original word document, or a publisher file. - The text from these can be easily copied and pasted. (unless they have specific security locks on them)... (which is unlikley). The alternative is that your trying to copy text from a PDF that was made up from a piece of scanned paper. - This you will NOT be able to copy and paste into word with. If thats the case, your only possible option is to google 'PDF word recognition, or OCR' and see what you can find...

Answer 3

Download PDF to Word converter from given website



http://www.hellopdf.com/

Answer 4

simple

use a gud pdf reader

use Adobe acrobat 7 or next ,in that ther is a direct cursor to copy , and paste it to direct ms word document .

Answer 5

Well if there is I have never found it.

Copy and pasting from pdf files has these drawbacks due to the internal layout of the pdf file.

The only other options are:

To use some OCR software (which converts images into text) such as http://www.hellopdf.com/

Or use an online service such as http://www.convertpdftoword.net

Answer 6

I use PDF Copy Paste software to perform the action,



http://www.pdfcopypaste.com



You can copy text from Adobe PDF to MS Word without any issue.