Study, administration, bank account statement, impossible to escape from PDF documents. Although very popular, this format is particularly complicated to modify, especially on an Android smartphone. To help you edit all of your documents, we have a tip for converting a PDF file to Word..
Convert PDF to text file on Android mobile
The PDF format is a simple and efficient way to view a document on any platform (Android smartphone, iPhone, Windows or Mac computer). And unlike many of its competitors, PDF documents are displayed on a smartphone with the layout chosen by the author. Font, images, pagination, graphics appear the same on all devices.
Unfortunately this idyllic table cannot hide some faults starting with the inflexibility of the PDF format. Indeed it is very complicated to see even impossible to modify a PDF document..
Of course, nothing prevents you from re-entering the entire text, but honestly you certainly have many more interesting things to do. Especially since today there are applications capable of converting any PDF file into a Word document. And icing on the cake, these conversion utilities keep the layout of the original document.
Free solution to edit PDF on Android
Convert a text document to PDF everyone can do. The reverse operation is much more difficult but not impossible. The PDF to Word application offers to transform your PDF files into a multitude of formats
- Open the Google Play Store
- In the search field type the name of the PDF to WORD application
- If you are reading this article from your smartphone you can download the application by clicking directly on the link given on the line above
- Accept the requested permissions then click on the Install button
- Press Open to launch the PDF to WORD application
- Choose from the list the file format you want to convert
- Select the PDF file to convert from the internal memory
- Depending on your needs, you can choose a few additional options
- Press the Convert button to start the conversion process
The application will then recover your PDF file and send it to the publisher's servers so that the latter can convert this document to Word format. Depending on the size of your file, the operation may take several minutes..
Once the procedure is complete, all you have to do is download the Word document and then open it with your favorite office software to make the changes. Do not hesitate to read our article on office suites for Android.
Edit a PDF directly from your browser
You do not want to clutter the internal memory of your mobile with yet another application? No problem. The I love PDF online service will allow you to convert your files directly from the mobile web browser of your smartphone.
It's a completely free online tool that offers countless conversion options. In addition it is very easy to take in hand. Everything is done from the browser in a few clicks. Finally, last important point, this service can also be used from a computer.
- Launch Google Chrome on your phone
- In the URL bar, enter the following address: https://www.ilovepdf.com/fr
- Click on the Menu button located in the upper left corner of the main window
- Select PDF to Word option
- Press the select file button and then the Files button
- Click on the document to convert
- Then recover the Word document produced from your PDF
Note that the I Love PDF service offers different conversion options. You can for example convert a PDF file to PowerPoint, Excel, JPG (image format) and vice versa.
