Best free (or low cost) PDF to Word converter?

DIYhelp76

Hi, 
Please can anyone recommend the best free (or low cost) PDF to Word converting software for a laptop?

I tried the one listed first in a comparison website, which was "WPS PDF to Word", but found this (a) could not convert files that are "images" and (b) is limited to only 3 pages at a time. So if you have a long document you have to do it in stages and they don't make page selection easy.

Is there a better functioning free or low cost alternative that anyone can recomment please?

Many thx in advance.

Neil_Jones

Recent versions of Word can open them...

Or you could use the "recover text from any file" filter if its the content you want.

flaneurs_lobster

Neil_Jones said:

Recent versions of Word can open them...

Just used the free online version of Word to open my latest energy bill.  Not perfect but it worked, you can edit the numbers so that your bill for the month is less than four figures...

DIYhelp76

Thanks both, I wasn't aware of the Word functionality. Yes, it is the text content which I would need to reproduce as plain text in a new Word doc.  I'll take a look at Word now, but any pointers?  I think I have Word 2013.

Neil_Jones

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-edit-a-pdf-document-in-word-2013/

grumpycrab

flaneurs_lobster said:

Just used the free online version of Word to open my latest energy bill.  Not perfect but it worked, you can edit the numbers so that your bill for the month is less than four figures...

If only you could actually reduce any bills like that
This is (one way) to online Word
Word (office.com)

Grey_Critic

flaneurs_lobster said:

Just used the free online version of Word to open my latest energy bill.  Not perfect but it worked, you can edit the numbers so that your bill for the month is less than four figures...

You can alter it all you want but the Energy supplier will still want whatever they charged you

Neil_Jones

Grey_Critic said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

Just used the free online version of Word to open my latest energy bill.  Not perfect but it worked, you can edit the numbers so that your bill for the month is less than four figures...

You can alter it all you want but the Energy supplier will still want whatever they charged you

Me thinks you've missed the point.

flaneurs_lobster

          

Linton

The method I use to convert PDF to word or libre-office format is via google drive and google docs
1) Open Google drive.  
2) From the My Drive dropdown select File Upload to upload the pdf file
3) Right click on the uploaded document, select Open WIth Google Docs
4) Within Google Docs: File->Download->your chosen format.