Acrobat PDF to Word?

I bought the basic Acrobat and it appeard to convert my PDF to Word but it does not allow me to edit or even use a search to find a common word. Do I need a different version ? Help needed!

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I Need to know how to download the acrobat pdf to word which I have paid, but can;t use. Thank you

please help e to download pdf to word converter. I paid for but can't use.

Hi,
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I apologize for the inconvenience.
If you are trying to export your Word file to PDF file please follow the steps below:
Using Web UI:
Log into https://exportpdf.acrobat.com/signin.html with your Adobe ID and password
Select “Export from PDF”
Click “Select Files” button then choose your PDF file
Select the format from the list below
Check ON “Recognized text in” if your PDF file is scanned images to recognize the image to text
Click “Export” button
Click “Download” button in the progress bar after completion of exporting to download the file to your computer.
Using Adobe Reader:
Launch Adobe Reader X or Reader XI
Select “Tools” and click “Sign In” link to sign in with your Adobe ID and password
Select “Export PDF” then click “Select PDF file” link to choose your PDF file
Select format from “Convert To” pull down menu(docx, doc,rtf,xlsx)
Click “Convert”
Click “Download Converted File” link to download the file to your computer after the process is completed.
Note: All exported files are stored at Acrobat.com(https://files.acrobat.com) and you can access with your Adobe ID and Password.
hisami

Converting pdf to word or excel

How could i do this ?

Hi ,
Welcome to the Community!
You need our Acrobat software to do it, if you don't have then check this link for details and to purchase it as well: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdf-to-word-doc-converter.html
Thanks!
Ankit

PDF zu Word exportieren - speichert nur online?

Hallo zusammen,
ich habe mir das Programm runter geladen, mit dem ich PDF Dateien in .doc Dateien konvertieren kann. Soweit so gut, allerdings speichert er die Dateien immer sofort im online Bereich adobe.com
Das möchte ich allerdings nicht (und auf dem Demo-Video wurde es auch so dargestellt, als würde es sofort auf dem eigenen Rechner gespeichert), u.a. da ich ja auch mal am Rechner damit arbeiten möchte, wenn ich keine Internetverbindung habe.
Das muss doch auch anders gehen? Hat da jemand einen Tipp für mich?
Vielen Dank schon mal!
Lieben Gruß
Katrin

Hallo Katrin,
auch laut Beschreibung von "Acrobat XI" (hast Du das?) sollte es die Möglichkeit geben "Datei exportieren nach..." siehe z. B.
http://www.adobe.com/de/products/acrobat/pdf-to-word-doc-converter.html oder auch im Tutorium
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/de/products/acrobat/axi/pdfs/adobe-acrobat-xi -convert-pdf-to-microsoft-office-word-tutorial.pdf
Falls Du ein anderes Programm hast, lade Dir doch einfach einmal die Testversion herunter, siehe
Download Adobe Acrobat XI Pro Testversion kostenlos | Adobe, Du kannst sie immerhin 30 Tage lang kostenlos nutzen.
Hans-Günter

Losing text from PDF to word

Hi,
sorry if it's been asked before but I converted an Acrobat PDF to word doc on my Mac book and it converted the doc sent to me in its blank form and none of the 127 pages of text I filled in!
Help!!

Very likely the problem is the use by WORD of printer metrics. That is typical of most word processors (why they are not called layout programs like some of the other alternatives). You either need to select the Adobe PDF printer while you edit. Then using the PDF Maker should give you a consistent result. On my notebooks, the Adobe PDF printer is my default printer.
In WORD, you can also go to the options and go way down in the list of compatibility settings and select to not use printer metrics. The result may not always look as good as if you use printer metrics, but it should translate almost exactly to any printer in terms of what you see. With WORD 2007, MS turned off the use of printer metrics as the default. In prior versions of OFFICE, printer metrics was turned on.
Many times you will see no difference, but if you start playing with using paragraph returns to go to the next page and such, then strange things happen with the printer metrics selected. That is when you need to select the printer in the print menu and then go back over your document to check for consistency.

Converting pdf to Word 2003 in Acrobat 9 Pro

I am using Acrobat 9 Pro. I want to convert pdfs to Word 2003. I have followed the instructions to export to Word, but when I get to the dialog box that selects the conversion method, I choose Flowing, which is recommended, and click OK, and I get an error message that my PDF document may be corrupt. This happens with every pdf, whether it is a form downloaded from the internet or a text document I have created myself. If I try to convert to RTF instead, it makes the "conversion", but in doing so, it creates a file containing an image that is not editable -- it does not create a plain text, editable file.
Is the problem that I am using Word 2003? Word 2003 is not on the list of file formats to which the pdf can be exported, but when I get to that screen, I choose Workshare PDF in Word (which I believe I read somewhere is the correct choice for conversion to Word 2003) as my selection and it gets me to the "conversion method" screen (which gets me to the corruption error message). Again, even if I choose rtf, I do not get an editable document.
Any ideas???

Something to try -
Export the PDF to RTF.
Open the RTF file with Word Pad.
Save As (perhaps to a new filename -- 'something_bis.rtf')
Open this file with MS Word.
Not particularly surprising that the PDF you posted behaves poorly when 'worked' with Acrobat.
It is an output of Ghostscript.
Compounding the awkwardness of export is the fact that the PDF is not a Tagged PDF.
A significant raison d'etre for Tagged PDF is to support export of PDF content to a word processor application.
Be well...

Acrobat Pro 9.1 no longer creates PDFs from Word 2007

I upgraded from Acrobat 7 to 9 specifically to gain more control over settings when making PDFs from Word 2007. This worked as I had hoped until the 9.1 vulnerability upgrade was installed. Now it will no longer create PDFs from Word 2007 documents at all.
From within Word 2007, when I click on "Create PDF" (whether in the Office menu or Acrobat toolbar) it asks for a file name, but after I click "Save" does nothing. This is true even for the simplest possible document, using the "Default" settings for PDF "Preferences."
If I right click the file name of the document in Windows Explorer, with Word 2007 closed, and click on "Convert to Adobe PDF" in the menu, it starts and the staus box comes up, but after a few seconds quits and displays "An unexpected error occurred. PDFMaker was unable produce the Adobe PDF."
I can still "Save As" PDF in Word 2007, but this gives me little control over the format.
Is there any way that I can get Acobat 9.1 to do what I bought it for, and what Adobe advertises it will do?

Try printing to the Adobe PDF printer, the more fundamental process (PDF Maker is a preprocessor for the printer). If that does not work, then try with print-to-file selected. Open the file in Distiller and see if the PDF is created. If the latter happens, then check for AcroTray running in the background. It is required to automate the process and is needed by PDF Maker.

Converting PDF to Word 2003 in Acrobat 9 locks up Word

I have a user who tries to convert a PDF to Word and it locks up Word every time, and her boss cannot open the document either. I can convert the same document on my computer with Acrobat 8 and Word 2007 and it works just fine. Is there a fix for this? Thanks.

Something to try -
Export the PDF to RTF.
Open the RTF file with Word Pad.
Save As (perhaps to a new filename -- 'something_bis.rtf')
Open this file with MS Word.
Not particularly surprising that the PDF you posted behaves poorly when 'worked' with Acrobat.
It is an output of Ghostscript.
Compounding the awkwardness of export is the fact that the PDF is not a Tagged PDF.
A significant raison d'etre for Tagged PDF is to support export of PDF content to a word processor application.
Be well...

Acrobat only converts the page that is displayed. How do I export/convert an entire PDF to word or exel?

I have some huge reports that need to be converted. This is not a one time thing.
When I try to export PDF to word, excel, or any format offered, it:
only saves the headers/footers.
If I select all; it only saves the page(s) displayed on screen
How can I convert an entire PDF to word or excel?
Auto-scrolling is on and that made sadly no difference.
There are too many pages to put it on 10% and view them all on one screen
Please help

Hi, sorry I should have put that in my original post.
Version: Acrobat XI
I tried multiple things which included:
Tools --> Content Editing --> Export File To... [ This saves a blank file ]
Select All --> Tools --> Content Editing --> Export File To... [ Saves only the page that is displayed on the monitor, the rest is all blank except header and footer ]
Select All --> File --> Save As --> Excel or Word [ Saves only the page displayed on monitor ]
File --> Save As --> Excel or Word [ Saves only the page displayed on monitor ]
Select All --> File --> Save As Other --> Excel or Word [ Saves only the page displayed on monitor ]
File --> Save As Other --> Excel or Word [ Saves only the page displayed on monitor ]
Tools --> Edit Text & Images --> Cannot Select All --> Export File To... [ Saves only what is displayed on the monitor ]
I'll edit and add to my original post if it lets me.

Creating PDFs from Word using Acrobat 9

I am trying to create a PDF using the 'convert to acrobat PDF' button from Word 2003. My PDF settings are set to embed the fonts. The resulting PDF has gaps in the text (bits where there is no text and should be). I have also tried going to File, Print and select PDF printer and the same problem occurs. Each time I try different bits of text are missing.
If I untick embed all fonts there is no problem.
I was using Acrobat CS and have used Acrobat CS3 and not had this problem.
Any help appreciated.

If you use ctrl-D>fonts, are all the fonts embedded. If not, are any of them non-standard fonts. The problem is typical of issues with fonts that are not embedded, sometimes due to license restrictions.

How do you convert a PDF to Word or Excel in Acrobat 9 Pro?

How do you convert a PDF to Word or Excel in Acrobat 9 Pro?

Refer to Acrobat 9 Help PDF (installed with Acrobat 9 is installed).
Review the discussion for Exporting PDFs in Chapter 5 of this Help PDF.
The PDF is also available on Adobe's site.
http://help.adobe.com/archive/en_US/acrobat/9/professional/acrobat_pro_9.0_help.pdf
Good to know is that the Acrobat 9.x product family passed into End of Support mid-year 2013.
Be well...

Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard Question - Converting PDF to word document

Question: I currently have Adobe Acrobat 8. I need to convert a PDF to word document. I know how to do that but the outcome of the word document sometimes varies as to retaining the exact formatting. How can I retain exact formatting? Is there something that I'm not doing that I need to be doing in order to retain the formatting. Also do newer versions (Adobe Acrobat 11 (Standard or Pro?)) do a better job of converting and retaining formatting?

Retaining the exact formatting is not possible in practice or in theory because Word documents are nothing like PDFs. For example, Word will cheerfully reflow text onto new lines or pages, while this will never happen with a PDF.
That said, Adobe keep trying to get closer to what people need. Sometimes this results in complex parts of the file being made into an uneditable graphic or text box.
Bottom line is you can get the basics into Word and then (according to your time, experience, and the abilities of Word) you might be able to reconstruct.
On no account convert official forms to Word.

Converting pdf to word Adobe Acrobat XI Pro trial

I am using a 30 day trial of Adobe Acrobat XI Pro, when I convert a pdf to word doc, it has several hidden letters & symbols, is this because it is a trial?

The trial is fully functional so, no.
That being said, the Acrobat forum is at http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat. You'll want to ask your questions there.

I've just signed up and paid. How do I retrieve an acrobat.pdf file converted to editable Word doc?

I've just signed up and paid. How do I retrieve an acrobat.pdf file converted to editable Word doc?

Hi clmundstrom,
This document tells you what you need to know to get up and running with ExportPDF: Getting Started with ExportPDF
Please let us know how it goes!
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Cannot Create a pdf from Word Doc 2003 in Acrobat 8

My first time out trying to create a pdf from word hasn't worked.
I've tried several times, but either get some message that distiller cannot run when Acrobat is not active. Well, as far as I can tell it's staring me in the face.
If I try to print from Word and set the page to pdf, it bombs almost the same way. Acrobat not active, bye. It brings up Acrobat anyway. Trying again doesn't help

The PRN file is actually a PS file that can be processed by Distiller. Acrobat should not open when you process a file in Distiller unless you set some of the preferences in Distiller to open a completed PDF. To resolve your problem, I am taking you to the most basic aspect of creating a PDF with Acrobat. The process is to print to file using the Adobe PDF printer. Then start Distiller and open that file (labeled PRN but actually a PS file) to process. If a PDF is created you are on your way. Printing to the printer without using the print-to-file just automates the process so that you do not have to do the extra step of opening Distiller yourself.
PDF Maker (the create PDF button) is simply a preprocessor for the printer above. Thus if the printer does not work, then PDF Maker will not work. AcroTray should be running as a background application (use ctrl-alt-del to see the background tasks on your system. AcroTray automates the process by recognizing a PRN file was created and starting Distiller to complete the process. If it is not running, then the only way to create a PDF is by printing to file as I mentioned. Thus, the print-to-file process is the basic step in testing your PDF creation capability. I am not sure how much more I can say. May others can make it clearer for you.
As far as updates go, I never do them through the Acrobat menu, but download them directly from Adobe (at downloads>updates). I have the auto update turned off in every version I have.

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