By Brian Duddy, Product Engineer
There are times when you need to use the content in a PDF file in another application, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, or even HTML. But copying and pasting often makes a mess of your formatting. Cleaning it up can be so time-consuming that you may be tempted to retype in order to avoid reformatting.
There’s a better way: Just export your file with your PDF software, such as Foxit PhantomPDF.
Exporting/converting PDF files with Foxit PhantomPDF
With Foxit PhantomPDF, you can convert pdf files to formats like Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more. Here’s what to do.
- Select FILE > Export, or click CONVERT > To MS Office, To HTML, or To Other.
- Select the format you want to convert your PDF to.
- Under “Settings” in the Save As dialog box, choose which page(s) to export, as well as if the document is pure text or includes images as well.
That’s it.
Want to save your entire PDF as an image or images so you can place it into a presentation, Word file or other document? You can do that, too. Here’s how.
- Select FILE > Export to Image, or click CONVERT > To Image.
- Choose the type of image and the page range (all pages, current page, a range of pages), and click OK.
- Set the color space, resolution, and other settings (depending on file type) from “Settings” in the Save As dialog box before you save the file. Click OK to continue.
- Click Save.
Of course, with PhantomPDF software, you may not even need to export files as you can edit and annotate your PDF directly, and reflow text with Link & Join Text. You can even perform advanced editing with the image editing feature in PhantomPDF Business.
The bottom line: you’ve got a lot of flexibility for changing and reusing the contents of your PDF files with Foxit PhantomPDF.
Foxit’s industry-leading PDF to Word converter to create the highest quality Word files. Convert your PDF files to Word right now for free! https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-to-word-converter/
the option to convert to msoffice is not there
Hi Mark ,
Please check out this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGhiXPMIaeg&index=13&list=PLrq9xhAyMyJakMLmxTb-L_pK6hGMRauht&t=0s
I am trying the convert from PDF to JPG instructions but it’s not working. I’m not receiving an error, it’s just not actually doing it even though it looks like it didn’t have issues. I have Windows 10, so I can search for any file I create and it’s not populating as a file even though I followed the instructions.
Hi Diana, do you mind sending your file to support@foxitsoftware.com?
Hi
Converting pdf to word doesn’t seem to allow me to then edit the word document or use the word search facility, cut and paste etc.
Is this not possible or maybe a known issue with Foxit Phantom?
Hello, Thanks for choosing Foxit Software for your PDF solutions! The PDF that you are working with may be scanned. Please please proceed by selecting File > Export > MS Office > Word > Save As > (This will prompt you to save the PDF first since OCR was made) > when prompting you to save the Word document > Select Settings > Image Based Document Select OK > Select Save. This will now open editable and selectable doc in Word.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
There is no export option in the “Convert” tab. Is there a problem with the installation? I’ve uninstalled it and reinstalled it twice. Any help.
Are you using Foxit PhantomPDF ?
foxit has a very good feature of printer which helps me saving different circuit layouts and graphs in foxit or pdf is there anyway to export that graph in to ms office report with same quality?
looking forward for your response . thanks in advance
Asad
You can improve the quality of the PDF printer by going to the Printer preferences – Select the General tab- Conversion Quality- Default Settings – Select High Quality Print
Hi,
I keep trying to export my pdf document to excel but it saying ‘failed to export. please check.’ Is there any reason it is not working?
I downloaded the update that I was directed to to solve the problem but still no luck!?
Kind regards.
Andy
in order for Foxit to help you better, please create a support ticket at https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/ticket.php and attach the file in question.
Is there a tool available to export text from a set of pdf files in batch mode?
Sorry we do not have this feature. Please send a detailed description of the feature that you require to support@foxitsoftware.com . Foxit will submit this request to our product management to evaluate and maybe we will add it in the future.
Hello, any update on this requested feature (bath pdf to excel conversion)?
Hello currently this feature has yet to added to Foxit PhantomPDF. Please look into our PDF toolkit which supports this feature.
https://www.foxitsoftware.com/products/pdf-toolkit/