Hello, everyone! Welcome to this 14 minute video.
What You Will Learn by Watching This Video.
1. Which of the following websites converts a complicated, 3 page PDF document into a Word file that can be edited.
The websites are;
PDFtoWord.com
PDFonline.com/pdf-to-word-converter
Freepdfconvert.com/pdf-word
Docs.zone/pdf-to-word
convertonlinefree.com/pdftoworden.aspx
In this video I visit 5 different PDF to Word Conversion websites, that are free to use!
I upload a complicated PDF file that contains text, graphics, photos and colours to see what the converting power of each website is like.
Start of Video Transcript
Hello and welcome to this video.
In this video I will compare 5 websites that claim to be able to convert pdf files to word files- convert a document that is read only into a document that can be edited!
All the websites that I show you claim to convert the files for free.
To make it a fairer test as possible, I will use the same pdf file on all sites.
The PDF that I have chosen to use is here on the screen in front of you and it's about the Blitz in the Second World War. So let's have a quick look at it.
It is quite a complex PDF that contains text, photos and graphics. Now ideally I was looking for something with a table in it but I did not want to spend any more time looking for what I thought was going to be the perfect PDF file.
Now, this original, The original file was 20 pages long but for the purposes of this conversion, I cut it down to three pages just to make sure that I wouldn't have any trouble with any of the on-line sites.
Let's go through our files one by one, sorry our sites one by one.
Now the first one here is pdftoword.com.
This is an on-line tool although you need to provide your email address so that your converted file can be sent to you. And so I am just about to put in my email address here.
It is made by a company who makes a powerful piece of PDF editing software (similar to Abbyy Fine Reader) which has been the subject one of one of my previous videos and of course they advertise this software on the webpage quite a lot.
There is no obvious details on any limits of using the on-line, free, PDF to Word converter. As you are doing this, make sure that you don't tick that box there because they will just start sending you lots of emails if that it the case.
So let's have a look up here, so what we want is we want to convert a PDF into Word and you can see that you can do other types of conversions on this page as well. It is not just PDF to Word there are lots of different conversions that you can do but I want to focus on this video just on PDF to word and once you have selected the kind of conversion that you want, you then select a file, so lets have a look.
Hopefully, there's our..and so we have told it thats the World War Two Blitz PDF that we want and now lets tell it to convert.
Now you can see that the conversion is taking a bit of time, probably taken round about a minute OK and what happens is that it sends us, it sends the converted file to us. So let's go back to my Inbox, here we go in my Inbox this is the conversion, my converted file. So I opened up the email.
And so here you go this is the converted file that it is converted from,.
You can see that actually, it is pretty good in terms of the likeness of it to the original. So that terrific news there isn't it? OK, so that is PDFtoWord.com.
So let's just close that there.
Now, our next website that we are going to for the conversion is PDFonline PDF to Word Converter.
So, here you go, there's the address of it in the address bar and right here we are going to upload a file to convert.
Now for this site you do not need to provide your email address as it is done for you on a while you wait basis.
So, let's have a look, take the original file again and you can see how the while you wait basis works.
Again it will probably take about a minute.
OK and that's not good, is it?
Let's have another go at that.
See if we can make that work again.
Ok so what we are going to need to do we are going to need to move on from that site.
So lets go to our third our third conversion website.
This is if you have a look at the address bar freepdfconvert.com/ pdf-to-word. On tis site again you need to provide your email address so let's let's go and choose the file and it actually says in terms of providing your email address its optional so let's tell it to convert it right away and I think it will be done while we wait.
And we can see what's happened here, let's download this.
So it is a, it was a three page document that I uploaded to the site, here we go, and it has only done two pages because it is trying to get us to sign up to the website to get the third page done.
So that is something to bear in mind if you want to use this website or consider this website. The conversion itself you can see in front of us here, again is very close to the original.
If I just move the cursor around to show that we can actually edit different parts of this document. Yes there are just two pages. So that is freepdfconvert.com is going to restrict you to two pages, unless you sign up.
OK so lets go for our fourth website which is up here docs.zone/pdf-to-word.
So, here we go, let's choose our PDF, once more and you get a choice here of what type of conversion you actually want it to do.
Now I am just going to stick to the flowing, what it calls flowing cause it says that that is ideal for most documents.
Ok, so let's check that out. We didn't have to give our email address to this and there we go, very very quick conversion.
It is done there and so let's download it and then open it up in Word and here we go we can see that it is another very, very accurate conversion.
It look as though I can edit all parts of it.
Let's just flash the original up again. So here's the original that we sent to every site for conversion.
And this is the converted copy from Docs Zone.
So that is another good conversion.
And then finally for this video, I am going to go to a website which is convertonlinefree.com.
And you can see that this website is a little more cluttered. It seems to be more information up on it and there are definitely more ads on it. just to confuse us.
So what we do here is go to the browse button and then we choose our original PDF and then next to the browse button is the convert button.
There is no email address to put in. so we just straight away we open it and again, there's another very, very good conversion of a three page, of our three page PDF. So just to show for small files, perhaps, these websites, these free websites can do a great conversion. We can get the PDF into Word and start to move it around and edit it.
OK, everyone, thank you for watching.
If you have any comments please leave them in the comments section below, or any questions please ask me in the comments section below.
If you have experience of other online sites or the sites that I have shown today then please let me know as well.
I'd be really interested to hear from you.
Thank you for watching.
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