Usually, I’m more protective over the originals than the PDF version because you can make a PDF version any time but not the DOC. Despite my best efforts, I have lost the original DOC before and it’s devastating especially when it’s a pretty large book or report. If you have the PDF then you may still be able to salvage our work.
Why only may? Because, a lot of the tools and methods to retrieve the content from a PDF depends on the security settings of the PDF. If you have locked down your PDF to disallow copying, many tools cannot get past that and if they did you’d still have to remember the password.
Assuming you have not locked your PDF, one of the easiest ways is to simply open the file in a PDF reader and click on Save As from the menu. This will extract a text only version of your work. If your document has a lot of fancy designs and images, you won’t be able to retrieve them using this method but if it’s mostly textual content this is probably better anyway to allow you to work from a fresh copy.
If you’d like something that resembles the final result more, you could try:
Keep in mind, you may not get an exact reproduction. In other words, don’t expect your original document. Some converters choke on the alignments and images, overlapping them but hey, the idea is to salvage as much as you can so you can’t be too picky.
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