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Old 01-31-2017, 05:35 PM
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Can anyone recommend a free program or application to convert PDF files to Word .doc?
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Old 01-31-2017, 08:40 PM
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Open the pdf from within Word 2013 and save as a .doc file?
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Word is able to open the PDF file, but it cannot be edited like a Word document. it's as if the PDF file is simply embedded in the Word file.
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First, you can save that (uneditable) document as a .doc file?

What you have is not text but a picture. If you had a picture of a car, you could not open the door, get in and drive it. With a picture of text, you cannot edit it.

Go back to the source pdf. You need to get that to be a pdf with text. This is called optical character recognition (OCR). There are a number of programs that will do this; I believe the capacity is built into OneNote.
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