It works basically the same as the online service but on your desktop. BCL Easy Converter Desktop 1.0 is a very simple yet powerful utility to convert PDF documents to Word. Since PDF Online impressed me the most with their online conversion service I decided to take their desktop software for a spin. These would be a better choice for converting sensitive documents. The next set of solutions are software-based, applications that can be installed on your local computer and used offline. The cheapest membership is $9/month where conversions are basically unlimited. Also, they only let you convert one PDF every 30 minutes. I submitted the same 4 page PDF document for all tests and this service cut my document off after 2 pages. This is similar to Zamzar but the free version is much more limited. The final online service we will check out is Free PDF Converter. Currently you can sign up for a BCL Premium Online account which allows you to convert 20 documents per day with a 10MB (per document) size limit.Īfter conversion you simply Right-Click on the link to “save link as” an RTF Word document on your PC. This service is powered by BCL Technologies Easy Converter software which you can download a 30 day trial of if you or your company wants to convert a large number of documents. Zamzar will also convert a PDF to HTML, ODT, PCX, PNG, PS, RTF, and TXT.Īnother great online service is PDF Online. When the document is ready Zamzar will send you an email with a link to the document to download. Just browse to the PDF, select the format to convert to, then enter your email address. This free service allows you to convert files up to 100MB for free.

The first couple of solutions are web-based, so you don’t even need to install any software to convert your files… keep in mind that with these web sites you are uploading your data to a third party, so consider the privacy implications if you are converting sensitive documents.Īrguably the most popular online file conversion site is Zamzar.

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