Portable Document Format (PDF) is a reliable and essential format for sharing. It is also very effective for distributing documents and files over the internet. So when you have specific formats and fonts in your document and would like to share it without any loss of quality or formatting, PDF is your best choice.
In order to, later on, view those documents you will only need a simple PDF viewer which can be found and downloaded basically everywhere on the internet. And yes, you will be fine until you wish to edit or extract some of the information from the PDF. Those documents are usually a one-way street, meaning that you can view, but not edit them.
Unless you have an original file from which PDF was generated, you are basically unable to do anything. Or are you? This article wouldn’t be written unless we didn’t have a solution for you. We are here to discuss some of the best free online tools that will help you convert your PDFs to editable file formats.
Just keep in mind that even the best PDF converters will on some occasions produce not so great results. This usually happens when you are trying to convert a scanned image to the word and the scan is not of the best quality.
EasyPDF
EasyPDF is one of the best all-in-one tools for converting PDF documents online. It is completely free to use (you don’t even have to register with the email), has no limitations (no file size limitation, no limitation for the number of files you can convert), and is anonymous (files are deleted from their servers within 24h after the conversion). EasyPDF is consisted out of 15 online tools like PDF to Word, PDF to Excel, PDF to Autocad, Compress PDF, Split PDF, etc. It even has a top-of-the-line OCR engine so you can convert scanned documents to MS Word, Excel, or text with great accuracy.
Smallpdf
Smallpdf is a complete solution for PDF files, and one of the most popular as well. By using the tool you will be able to convert documents to Microsoft Office files or images. It also provides some editing tools, such as the ones for merging or splitting different files, rotating documents, and even the sign or unlock files feature. The compression tool is surprisingly effective, reducing some file sizes by 90% with a barely noticeable loss of quality. Small PDF provides a desktop solution as well that is completely offline. The only negative aspect of the tool is that it is not completely free. You have some limiting aspects like the size of the file and the number of files you can convert.
Online-Convert
Convert documents and images to and from PDF with this free online PDF converter. You can even take a screenshot of a web page indicating the URL and convert the HTML to PDF or any other format. Upload your documents and convert them to PDF instantly. One advantage of this tool is that you can enter a URL and the tool will convert the file to which the link points. The online PDF converter can also convert Microsoft Word documents to PDF, as well as many other formats. Besides document conversion website offers audio and video conversions as well, but that is for another article.
iLovePDF
Like SmallPDF and EasyPDF, iLovePDF is also a free tool for editing PDFs online. The PDF editor is just a small part of a larger range of PDF tools that iLovePDF offers. It also offers tools like PDF converters, PDF password remover, PDF watermark stamp, and even a PDF repair tool for corrupted files. The editor is not as advanced as other paid tools, but it can still do the basics really well. The PDF editor supports images, text, and shapes. You can change the font, color, and size of any new text that you are adding.
PDF to DOC
This free online PDF converter will save a PDF file as an editable Microsoft Word DOC document. Thus guaranteeing a quality superior to most of the other PDF to Word conversion tools. In most cases, it preserves the original format, although sometimes there could be some small things to correct in the document. Besides conversions to Word, PDF to Doc offers PDF conversions to text, JPG, PNG, SVG, along with options to compress and combine documents.
Hope you found this article useful and that from now on you will edit and modify your PDF files easily and in a simpler way. Also, keep in mind that there are tools to unlock or unprotect PDFs, which will allow you to access documents that you previously couldn’t. Leave us your comments on how we could see what you think of these tools! Or maybe you would like to add some tools that we haven’t mentioned in the article?
