The most common way to reuse PDF files is to convert Adobe PDF to Microsoft Word files. You may want to copy some interesting paragraphs or elegant sentences from PDF files. Furthermore, you may receive business or financial charts in the PDF format and would like to use them in your document or presentation. Do not fancy that you can copy and paste the text from PDFs. Most magazines and copyright protected PDF files do not allow copying and printing. PDF to Word converters can help you extract the editable objects and text from PDF files, so that you can edit charts in Word file or Visio and make changes to color, shape, line weight and so on. Following shows what kind of PDF to Word conversion tools you should choose to convert read only Adobe PDF to Word file.

1. Nitro online PDF Converter is a good choice. It is a FREE online PDF to Word converter, needs no add-ons and installation, which can convert Adobe PDF to Word file. However, it is still a BETA version and only the files smaller than 10MB can be converted. You need the paid version from Nitro, PDF Professional, if you want to convert larger PDF files to Word documents. By the way, the conversion quality of the paid version is terrible. It is more a PDF editor than a PDF to Word converter.

2. AdreamSoft PDF to Word converter 2.6.0. Basic on the free beta version 1.0, this all new PDF to Word conversion tool improves a lot, and has some new features along with many enhancements especially the conversion rate and quality. From my experience, it is a cost-effective and competent PDF to Word converter in daily work.

3. Solid Converter PDF is the most powerful PDF to Word conversion tool I’ve ever tried. It is a PDF converter that not only converts PDF to word file, but also a PDF creator that create PDF files from other file format. Moreover, it is a PDF editor that can edit PDF files. I don't know about you, but to me, the conversion speed always challenges my patience.

4. Investintech Able2doc. The conversion speed is fast, and it gives you a step by step guide on how to convert PDF to word file. But in my opinion, the interface of the program can be improved a lot.

Other PDF to Word conversion tools like helloPDF, veryPDF and so on, are popular in the market, but after testing many PDF converters, the 4 tools recommended above works well.

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