Best Free Online PDF Tools to Convert PDF to Other Formats
Author:admin Date:2011-12-31
No doubt there is sometimes that you want to switch between PDF and other formats, like MS word document, webpage, image, etc. Thanks to Adobe, we have free Adobe Reader that work great as a best PDF viewer for us, to view and save PDF to text, even markup and comment PDF if enabled. And PDF conversion and editing are much easier when you have already installed Adobe Acrobat previously. However, when you don't get Adobe Acrobat which is a little hard to afford, what should you do? There are many ways to solve the problems; to use the free online PDF tools is one of them. This is a simple guide for you to follow.
Convert PDF to Word
PDF to Word Converter allows line break removal while preserving original text, layouts, and images in an editable Word document. It supports batch conversion and encrypted pdf files. The version under review does not preserve hyperlinks.
Free PDF online converter is available from Nitro PDF for PDF to Word Conversion. Choose the file you need, click the "Convert" button and check your email inbox for the converted files.
Anyway, to convert PDF to word online is not safe especially when your files are of high level of privacy. Then you can also find the other 6 Best Ways to Save PDF as Word on Mac.
Convert PDF to Excel
Some PDF Convert for Mac can perfectly convert PDF to excel. There are 2 options for you to choose, freepdfconvert.com and Nitro PDF for PDF to Excel Converter. Just upload and click “convert”, and then find you converted files in you inbox.
Convert PDF to Text
It is easy to convert PDF to text if you use free Adobe Reader X, you can directly save PDF as text. You don't need to bother the online PDF tools. But this method is only available for unencrypted PDF files.
For restricted PDF file, you have to use other PDF to Word converter for Mac or PDF converter for Mac. They can support PDF to TXT Conversion, preserve text and layout while supporting drag and drop, batch conversion and encrypted pdf files.
Convert Scanned PDF to Text-based document
There are many ways to convert scanned PDF to editable document on Mac OS, such as OCRTerminal.com, Free-OCR.com and NewOCR.com, that providesa good OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology which lets you extract text from scanned PDF documents.
Tips: if you PDF files are sensitive, you'd better try the PDF converter pro for Mac program that also supports scanned PDF to word/text/excel conversion.
Convert PDF to Flash
Fortunately there is really a free online PDF tool for you to convert your PDF files into a Flash Flipping book movie, that is, PDF to Flash Page Flip. You can customize the output flash page.
Note: there are some bugs for this online PDF tool when converting PDF to flash pages, and the PDF files size is limited to 10M. If you want a stable conversion, you can try the PDF to Flash Converter.
Convert PDF to EPUB
EPUB is a very popular format for iPhone, iPad, iPod and other mobile devices. So Mac users often tend to convert PDF ebook to EPUB for convenient reading on the mobile devices. 2EPUB is a good free online ePub converter for you to make it. Just note that you're only allowed to upload 5 PDF files (25Mb max) at one time.
In a word, converting online is free and independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems, apart from its limitation for file size (smaller than 10Mb to 30Mb) and high requirement for band width, there is also lots of unexpected risk. It's better to keep your sensitive files away from the web and email, and under control, by converting PDF files to Word/Excel/PPT/EPUB/HTML/Text/Image straight from your desktop.
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