ConvertPDFToWord.net is an online service which can convert your PDF documents to Word documents on the fly. Simple upload your PDF and it will automatically convert to word format.
Using this service, you can you can easily grab the content or text from the PDF file. This service support other languages too.
There are some other similar services:
Scribd had launch a program called Convert your paper to iPaper, which means they will scan your paper documents for free, and publish them on the internet for free.
Document sharing website Scribd launched iPaper in February and now they are taking one step further to introduce this service. The company has a strict process to make sure you are not going to send them a lot of documents. Here is the instruction:
To participate, just send a brief description of the type and quantity of your documents to paper@scribd.com. A Scribd representative will reply shortly with further instructions for how and where to mail the documents. Scribd will have the content scanned and published on Scribd.com to be easily shared with anyone. Include your Scribd username along with your paper so that your content will be published in your account. If you are not a Scribd user, include your email address, and Scribd will email you a link to your published content.
I believe this service will bring a lot of benefits to students, as they can get free scanning service and can share their documents with friends.
Scribd claims that this service will be available for limited time only, and they may choose to not scan the materials received. For further information, please visit their page.
Source: webware
BookletCreator is a free service which can convert any PDF documents to a booklet document. It will reorder the pages so that after printing and folding the papers, it will look like a small book.
Do you like to carry a book and read it whenever you free? If yes, then the BookletCreator may help you to create and print any PDF documents into a small booklet so that you can bring them anywhere.
This is how it works:
Remember to choose “Print on both sides” when you are printing the documents. After you print all the pages, stack them into correct order and staple them. You will then get a small booklet.
If you documents contain a lot of pages, you may consider to print it to multiple booklets. So, you may need to select the “pages per booklet” and check “Add blank pages to the last booklet” so that all the sub-booklets will have the same number of pages.
BookletCreator only support PDF document. So if you want to print other format document, you may need to convert it to a PDF by using tool such as PrimoPDF. The maximum file size supported is 20MB.
PdfMeNot let users convert any PDF document into flash format, which is much more easy to embedded into website/blog.
There are some service which can convert and share documents online, such as Scribd and SlideShare. PdfMeNot is similar with them, which can convert PDF documents and provide an embedded link so that bloggers can place a PDF viewer within their blogs.
The main advantage of flash format over the PDF format is the loading speed. Once you open the link, the content will appear almost immediately. This is the main reason why flash format had become more popular nowadays.
PdfMeNot team also create a lot of tools which help users to easily integrate their service to the browsers and websites. For example, they had cerate Bookmarklet button which will automatically convert PDF contents to flash contents, Firefox extension, Embedded PDF viewer for websites, and much more.
PDFTextOnline is a free converter which provide PDF to text conversion. It can extract text from a PDF document and you can download the output as a zip file to your own computer.
There are a lot of desktop applications that move into web applications. One of the example is Google Docs, which let users cerate or edit word documents online. Now, we can even extract text online.
We read a lot of PDF documents and sometimes we may want to copy text/image from the documents. With PDFTextOnline, you can quickly extract the text in the PDF documents. It will remains the pages, but the extracted text’s style looks different with the original document.
To use the service, simply upload your PDF document, wait for a while and you will get the result. They provide 2 options which let users choose the Font type and Page Layout.
This service is very useful especially when you are surfing through others computer which don’t have PDF editing tools. There are few advantages of this web application:
Issuu is a Web 2.0 service which can convert any PDF files to online books. The interesting feature is it enable user who doesn’t install PDF plugin to view the book.
When you upload your PDF document, Issuu will then convert it to a web based document, which require flash player to open. The converted document looks more like a book then the original PDF document.
After you upload your PDF document, you will get a direct link to your online book and you can easily embedded it to your social networking websites such as MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Blogger, and etc. Users are able to customize the viewer’s background color and the dimension. Readers can click the OPEN PUBLICATION button to view the full-screen of the document.
Currently, the uploaded PDF size must smaller than 100MB and not more than 500 pages. There are 4 categories which you can put your online documents :- Magazines, Comics, Visuals, and Photo. You can create or view others documents without register!
Google Data APIs developers had released an application called DocList Uploader, which let users to upload documents to their Google Docs account. This is an example application which using Google Data APIs.
The main purpose of this application is to show users the power of Documents List Data API. Before run this application, make sure your computer had installed Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
This application is fairly simple. First, you sign-in with your Gmail account. Then you can upload or download documents from Google Docs. There are a few interesting features. First of all, you can add DocList Uploader to your context menu, which means you can send documents to Google Docs from your right-click menu. Besides this, you can drag-and-drop files to the application to upload them.
They also make this application appears in System Tray. When you close this application, it actually minimized to System Tray. If you try to upload documents which not supported by Google Docs, you will get a warning message. Double-click the documents will open it in browser.
If you are a developer, you can download the source code, or view the page to get more details on how they implement this application.
