PDF to word conversion software?

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Is there any free software available on Ubuntu that can convert a pdf file to a .doc file?


Download Abiword from Ubuntu Software Center or you can install it by typing following command in terminal:

sudo apt-get install abiword

Then perform the conversion:

abiword --to=doc example.pdf

openoffice (or alternatively the libreoffice fork) both have pdf import plugins and .doc export functionality... though both aspects suffer from conversion issues AFAIK. By this I mean that the conversion fidelity isn't always 100%.

Abiword also works in a similar way, if OpenOffice doesn't work on your system.


I've had great success with PDF to Word online. This is not a desktop application, but a service, that works better than other things I've used.

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