It really depends on how professional you wish to be. If this is just the odd page or two then apart from the suggestions below there isn much at the low-cost end of the market. However if you are doing this for a paid job and it is worth the extra then Abbyy Fine Reader will take any unprotected PDF and allow you to edit it in as well as export to a range of other options. No I am not an affiliate for this at the moment but just a user for the past 1 years or so. It is really for doing OCR (Scanning documents and turning into ) but the ability to import files and output into a range of other file formats is one of its things. Always be aware that when outputting into Word any programme which is translating formats is probably going to create a range of Styles. Depending on the original there may be many different styles created by this process so you will have work to do in tidying it up. NOTE If the Word Document is a fairly basic one (with less than say 1 styles) then it is better to create a new template. Set up those styles (possibly with associated macro keys to save time) then import the original as and format the paragraphs as you go or all in one job at the end of the import. Just remember that what might seem like the quickest option at the start may not be the best option for the whole job. This will be particularly if you need to do further editing and especially if there are sequentially numbered paragraphs. Word is not that happy changing numbered formats once they are set up!

Well here are several solutions for you to keep the original format. Perform the conversion with Adobe Acrobat For your information a free adobe reader can not be used to perform ocr on files. Here we take adobe acrobat pro as an example Open PDF in Acrobat X Pro or Acorbat XI Standard Select the recognized part to copy to or export as Word or other just copy with formatting. choose language output as Word turn OCR ON

Do you use Adobe on Mac? If yesadobe allows you to copy the PDF with formatting(select the in adobethen click the right mouse button); or you can go to FileSave as otherMicrosoft Word in Adobe to do this Also you can directly convert PDF to Word with a converter s which can maintain the formatting perfectly.

First let's look at why you want to do this. LaTeX outputs well as PDF and many publishers take submissions as PDF and many copyeditors can work with PDF. If you can stay with LaTeX However some collaborators publishers and copyeditors only work with Word-formatted files. For this you'll need a converter direct to Word formatting or to a format Word can open such as .rtf or HTML. There are many options available online citation target s title Converters from LaTeX to PC Textprocessors - Overview index 1 unique_id LNPnd citation target s title How to convert a scientific manuscript from LaTeX to Word using Pandoc? index 2 unique_id sXpkI citation target s title How do I convert LaTeX into a Microsoft Word Document? index 3 unique_id cFEfb citation target s title s index 4 unique_id TLGcU some of them usingmand lines and some a GUI; some are free trial or paid; some are used via a webpage and some are downloadable; some are cross-platform and some are specific to Windows Mac or Linux; some work better with OpenOffice or LibreOffice than MS Word itself. Which is suitable for you will depend on how many documents you wish to convert and whether you can afford to pay. Also see answers to What is the best software to convert LaTeX to word? question qid 49276 which Quora Content Review decided not to merge this question to. Assuming free options are preferable you might try TeX4ht s which converts to HTML Open the PDF directly in Word which will lose some but not all of the formatting Output as PDF and use a PDF to Word converter - there are many Pandoc rtf2latex2e Authorea s - free if you don't mind your document being public the TeX to HTML translator

There is no good way to use Microsoft Word to edit PDFs. Microsoft Word is used for authoring an original document not modifying a portable document. True Word can import some data from a PDF. That feature is useful when you are authoring a new document and wish to salvage data from a PDF to prevent time spent entering data. In that case it is best to import the PDF into a file by itself and strip it of formatting then copy and paste it into your pre-formatted document as Normal . Then you will proceed to make other formatting changes for headings section numbering etc. If you must edit a PDF directly your edits should be minor. Even in Adobe Acrobat DC Pro you are limited in how much editing you can do. Fix a misspelled word maybe replace a word here or there. If you try to rearrange a document or make edits that cause significant changes regarding allocated space you will not get what you expect. The way flows in a PDF is not always what you expect so shortening or lengthening paragraphs will give strange results oftentimes. PDF editors are not page layout programs. So if your edits are minor and you must edit the of an existing PDF get your hands on a PDF editor (not free). If you can get away with obscuring existing and s you just need good annotation capability. If you have a Mac you can use Preview to annotate or cut and paste graphics. The free Acrobat Reader allows some annotations too. You can use annotations to white-out a section of and put in new annotation to replace it. If you are careful it may not be that noticeable. You can white-out s to alter graphics. You can create a Frankenstein Monster of a document if you like using free PDF annotation software. But then youll ask yourself why you didn just make a whole new document in Microsoft Word something you could call your own.

You have to appreciate how Word works in order to do something like this. Word uses what are called styles (Ive talked about these in other posts here on Quora). It has a lot of built-in styles but itll also allow you to create any number and of your own When you copy and paste from Word document to Word document unless you specifically go out of your way to not paste the style information italic as well as the actual information italic into Word then itll automatically import the styles as well. You may or may not want these. However when you paste from other applications into Word again unless you instruct Word otherwise itll try and do the same thing. Given the differences in the programs I would advice against doing that styles are everything in Word and if you either don use them or you mess them up that where your troubles will begin. Though it takes more time the best way to perform this kind of operation and Ive done this successfully thousands of times is to copy and paste via Notepad. This way youre removing all the formatting from the original document before it gets anywhere near Word. Then in your fully-styled branded and ready-to-go Word document put your cursor in a Body italic styled blank paragraph and copy and paste from Notepad into that blank paragraph*. Now you can go through and format your headings and other elements. That is the safest way to do it. When you want to get a little more advanced and perhaps make things easier for yourself then you can do a find and replace in your source document to tag your original styles (Heading 1 =