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Converting a PDF to an editable Word document is one of the most requested document tasks — and one of the most misunderstood. The quality of the result depends heavily on what is inside the PDF.
Here is a question I get asked constantly: "Why does my converted PDF look nothing like the original?" The honest answer is that PDF-to-Word conversion is a fundamentally lossy process for anything except the simplest documents...
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Sara M.
Document productivity specialist and freelance technical writer. Previously at Adobe.
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