Convert pdf to any format

i currently searching for a tool that can convert pdf to any format (office 08, iwork '09, pictures)
anybody has any suggestion? a tool that do-it-all?

If you really do mean ANY format, then you know of course that if you open a PDF file in Preview you can select 'Save As...' and in the Save window that comes up, from the 'Format' pop-up button you can select:
GIF
ICNS
JPEG
JPEG-2000
Microsoft BMP
Microsoft Icon
OpenEXR
Photoshop
PICT
PNG
SGI
TGA
TIFF
Unfortunately they are all image formats, which is useless if you want to extract the text as text. You can use Previews Text tool to drag across text and then copy and paste it into TextEdit or Pages - this though leaves the images behind.
Also, depending on your needs, since Snow Leopard, the inbuilt pdf filtering is suppose to be smarter than previous, in that if the pdf document is multi-column, then dragging across multiple columns of text will automatically determine the columns and when you paste it it will all come out intact. Unfortunately it isn't as smart as it thinks and my experience is that it is easily confused and will sometimes think there are columns that don't really exist.
Lastly, and probably what you are looking for, PDF2RTFService 1.1 by Devon Technologies is worth a look:
http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/services.html
Depending on your needs it may or may not work for you. I find that for simple documents it does OK. For complex documents it's barely helpful. And since Snow Leopard, it sees columns that don't really exist - although that's Apple's fault, not Devon Technologies.
HTH
Message was edited by: WunWingLoh
Opps, forgot to mention the PDF2RTFService is Free , but you figured that from the 'freeware' in the link, right.

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