Converting pdf to editable word doc

Does anyone know if you can convert pdf files back into an
editable word document? If so, how?
Thank you.

Hello Murphy#1,
Thanks for your post.
Converting PDF to another file type is outside of the scope
of Acrobat.com's functionality. Of course that doesn't mean the
operation can't be done!
I performed a
Google
search for PDF to Word and saw a few options.
You may consider looking one or more of these.
Or if you'd like, you could ask this question over on the
Acrobat forums, as some users there may be performing this type of
workflow as well.
Acrobat
Pro Forums
Give some of those suggestions a try!
Cheers,
Pete

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Hi karenb60536875,
There are some PDF types (such as those that are password-protected) that can't be converted. But when that's the case, you'll get a message during conversion, and the conversion will stop. It doesn't sound like that's the case for you.
What happens when you open the converted Word document in Word? Do you see an Enable Editing button at the top of the document? If so, please click that. If you're still unable to select text in the Word document, try triple-clicking to select it.
For reference, I will say that the quality of the conversion depends on the quality of the PDF (see Will Adobe ExportPDF convert both text and form... | Adobe Community). So, there may be cases where a PDF written by a third-party application (a non-Adobe app), may not be written to spec, and that can affect the accuracy of the conversion.
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I bought this Adobe program to convert PDF files to Word doc. files so I could e-mail them as an attachment to people who do not have Adobe Reader. When the people got my e-mail with the attachment and opened it. The attachment was BLANK!! Is there a way to correct this?? or should I just get my money back and cancel this program?

Hi bogy,
How very frustrating! I'm sorry that your email attachment was blank. I'm sure this is a silly question, but did the Word file display as expected on your own machine? If not, then the issue is quite likely with the conversion from PDF to Word (but what you describe isn't a common issue that we're hearing about).
If it looks OK for you, then I suspect the issue lies outside of ExportPDF. If the Word doc is blank when you open it, then please tell me a bit more about the PDF that you're trying to convert and we will take it from there.
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I've follwoed the onscreen directions multiple times over the past week but have been unable to acheive a successful conversion. The uploading file to Adobe ExportPDF online monitor just keeps going round and round in circles for HOURS! There is no sign of any progress. I don't know if the programme is doing anything or sitting sucking its thumb. How can I tell if it is progressing or if it is jammed. And more importantly how do I get these blessed files converted from scanned PDF to editable Word? I have Windows 8 but am really struggling to get my usual applications to work properly with the new operating system.

A scanned document is really just an image; converting it to Word will still result in an image.
The scanned document needs text recognition processing (OCR); I don't know if ExportPDF can actually do that.
I will move your topic to the ExportPDF forum, where they know a lot more about it than here in the Reader forum.

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