Great Way To Convert PDF TO DOCX for Personal Books

You may all be aware of this, but it is new to me.

Adobe, for a very reasonable yearly price, will let you subscribe to a service within the Adobe Reader that does a great job of converting PDF files to DOCX.

AND IT DOES A GREAT JOB WITH FOOTNOTES!

I recently made a Personal Book of a pdf book that was loaded with scholarly footnotes, and it turned out great!

It handled Greek great, too.

I have been searching for this, and at last I have found it!! It is enough to make a Methodist preacher shout! I had the document in my Adobe Reader X and noticed in the column on the right hand side the offer to export and change pdf files. The price was so reasonable, why not give it a try (though nothing had handled footnotes very well for me before.) It worked!

I am bit excited about this. I have many books in PDF that would make great Logos personal books. But without the footnotes, and quality, they are not nearly as valuable.

Thanks Adobe! And thanks Logos for Personal Books. Now let's get Personal Books on the iPad, please!

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Bruce Dunning

I love to hear Methodist preachers getting excited! [;)] Sounds like a great option.

DAL

Sounds like you like things done very "methodical" [;)]

DAL

Robert M. Warren

Thanks, Michael.

I have been using MS Word 2013 for converting PDFs (preserves the PDF's active footnotes, also). However, I noticed it sometimes chokes out on large PDFs and can't convert it. Do you have any very-large-PDF experience with the Adobe service?

mike

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/537300#Comment_537300

how much?

Jack Caviness

It is enough to make a Methodist preacher shout!

Now, that is earth-shaking [:D] Thanks for the information. And it is also available in the Mac version for just $1.99 per month [<:o)]

Mike Childs

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/537300#Comment_537300

Thanks, Michael.

I have been using MS Word 2013 for converting PDFs (preserves the PDF's active footnotes, also). However, I noticed it sometimes chokes out on large PDFs and can't convert it. Do you have any very-large-PDF experience with the Adobe service?

Robert,

I converted a book of about 260 pages, and it worked great. I don't know how big you mean, but it seems to do okay. In my opinion it does better than MS Word 2013, which I have tried.

Mike Childs

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/537356#Comment_537356

how much?

Well, since this is something that complements Logos, and does not compete against it, there should be no issue with me giving the price.

It was $19.99 for a year.

It just worked well for me in making a personal book, and I wanted to share it for anyone interested.

mike

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/537391#Comment_537391

how good was the the conversion with a bad "scanlation" of pdf?

also, have you tried converting pdf that has pictures/images? how did it turn out?

thanks! this is very helpful

Don Awalt

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/538322#Comment_538322

Check out my new post in the Files section, I just uploaded a PDF file, with conversions from Adobe and Word 2013 so you can see the difference!

http://community.logos.com/forums/t/76930.aspx

Mike Childs

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/538322#Comment_538322

how good was the the conversion with a bad "scanlation" of pdf?

also, have you tried converting pdf that has pictures/images? how did it turn out?

thanks! this is very helpful

Pictures were no problem. It did a good job on them. But I have not tried a bad "scanlation". I doubt anything can give good results with a bad scan. I suspect the results would be SCAN-DALOUS.

mike

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/538542#Comment_538542

what about Adobe Acrobat XI, has anyone tried it?

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdf-to-word-doc-converter.html

xnman

I have been searching for this, and at last I have found it!! It is enough to make a Methodist preacher shout! I had the document in my Adobe Reader X and noticed in the column on the right hand side the offer to export and change pdf files. The price was so reasonable, why not give it a try (though nothing had handled footnotes very well for me before.) It worked!

I am bit excited about this. I have many books in PDF that would make great Logos personal books. But without the footnotes, and quality, they are not nearly as valuable.

Thanks Adobe! And thanks Logos for Personal Books. Now let's get Personal Books on the iPad, please!

I found your post and want to say "Thanks" for posting it. I have about 8 gig of pdf files that I would love to get into PB in Logos. I tried Adobe today and it works great! These forums have benefited me more than I can tell.

Thanks again for your post!

xnman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/538554#Comment_538554

what about Adobe Acrobat XI, has anyone tried it?

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdf-to-word-doc-converter.html

That is what I bought. It works great!