{"id":4575,"date":"2008-02-27T19:25:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/extract-text-and-images-from-a-pdf-documents\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:34:09","slug":"extract-text-and-images-from-a-pdf-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/extract-text-and-images-from-a-pdf-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Extract text and images from a PDF"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GrabDon’t get me wrong, the PDF format is perfect for sharing information in a well-presented manner over the Internet. The only annoying thing about the Adobe file format is that if you want to extract text or images from a PDF to be republished online, added to a word processing document, inserted into a PowerPoint presentation and such, it can be hard to know where to start. Don’t worry though, because there are a few simple ways you can extract elements in a flash.<\/p>\n

If you have the full version of Acrobat Reader<\/a><\/strong> then you’re in luck, because the application provides probably the most effective way of pillaging a PDF. All you need to do is use the Select Text<\/strong> or Select Graphic<\/strong> option from the basic Acrobat toolbar (they’re both housed within the same button). If you’re selecting text, you just need to highlight it and choose Copy <\/strong>before pasting it into Word. If it’s images you’re after, you can right-click on it and choose Save As<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If you’re only using the free version of Acrobat then you won’t be able to do the above. Instead, you’ll probably be best off installing a third party app to do the job for you. Thankfully, there are a couple of good ones that you can pick up for free. PDF Image Extraction Wizard<\/a><\/strong> offers a dead simple way of sucking out bitmaps from a PDF and saving them as a single image file on your PC.<\/p>\n

To export text from a PDF while preserving its layout and properties, try Free PDF to Word Doc Converter<\/a><\/strong>. It’s free and really simple. You just need to select the source PDF file and target directory and specify whether you want to convert the whole file or just a certain page range. Then you’ll be able to open and edit your document in Word just like any other DOC file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t get me wrong, the PDF format is perfect for sharing information in a well-presented manner over the Internet. The only annoying thing about the Adobe file format is that if you want to extract text or images from a PDF to be republished online, added to a word processing document, inserted into a PowerPoint … Continue reading “Extract text and images from a PDF”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336336,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions\/336336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}