Get Organized!: Free PFD File Conversion (and 50 More )

Friday, January 25, 2013

Free PFD File Conversion (and 50 More )

I am always glad to know about sites which offer free solutions to common problems.I am equally glad to pass that knowledge along to readers. Recently, I received an email letting me know about a site which converts PDF documents to Word.

The site is http://convertpdftoword.org. I tried it, and was impressed with the results. While you can sign up for a free account, registration is not necessary to use the site. You navigate to the document you wish to convert and supply your email address. I received an email in less than two minutes with a link to download my converted document. When I opened the document, it appeared perfect.

In September 2010, I reviewed another PDF to Word converter in this post. That site and the one just experienced operate in a virtually identical fashion. The only difference is the one I had reviewed in 2010 asks you to complete a CAPTCH and this one does not.

My exploration got even better. I noticed in the upper-left corner a link labeled "in conjunction with Cometdocs.com." When I clicked that link, I was taken to a more robust site at the URL Cometdocs.com. I read the FAQ tab and found Cometdocs offers over 50 online conversions, also for free.

I Googled Cometdocs and found this review done on Lifehacker in April 2009. The review was positive. My experience has also been positive. So, I offer these sites to you and hope they will increase your productivity.

After you have had a chance to take these sites for a test drive, I would be interested in what you think. If you know of other sites which offer similar capabilities, I would be glad to hear about them.

2 comments:

Brittany Haub said...: My name is Brittany. My class blog http://edm310.blogspot.com/. My personal blog is http://haubbrittanyedm310.blogspot.com. I will be summarizing my visits to your blog with a post on my blog! I thought your most recent post about PDF file conversion will be very helpful to those who read it. I didn't personally try them out but I clicked on each link to see what they each looked like. They seemed very easy to use and straight forward on what to do from what I saw.
This will most definitely help me in the future when I need to switch a document! Thank you for showing me/other readers these websites!

Brittany; 1:36 PM
Dr. Frank Buck said...: Brittany,

Thanks for stopping by and for leaving a comment. I wish more people would take a moment to interact with the post and let me know their reactions.

I went over and read the posts on your blog. I wish you luck on your journey as you prepare yourself to be a teacher.

In addition to being a teacher, I was an administrator for more than half of my career in education. So much of what I write here is to make life easier for the those in education now. The demands on teachers have never been greater than they are right now; yet the resources available have never been greater. It is an exciting time to be entering education.

I hope that you will continue to visit, continue to comment, and I would certainly welcome your reactions on your own blog to what you see here .; 9:27 PM

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