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I have read in many places that kword can open pdf and save it in doc format ! but on ubuntu 11.10 I can not open pdf using kword as it does not showing pdf as supported files ?!!!

I want a pdf to doc converter on Ubuntu 11.10. I can open pdf using libreofffice but it displaying garbled characters with over 1000+ pages for a pdf with only 15 pages.

What can I do so that Kword became able to open pdf and save it to doc or odt format ??

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Install the package libreoffice-pdfimport:

Install via the software center

Or by using the command sudo apt-get install libreoffice-pdfimport and Writer will be able to open your PDF's correctly, then you can save them in ODT or DOC.

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Abiword works for me:

In a terminal type 

sudo apt-get install abiword

To run it from the terminal type abiword .

In abiword (on the system panel - located at the top-left corner of your desktop) click File and select Open'* and locate the pdf. Make changes to your file and click on **File again, select Save as... Type filename to save with and select microsoft (.doc) from below in save file as type and click save.

After finishing with the aforesaid, locate your file in doc format and open it with your doc app - like openoffice or libreoffice.

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You don't to install Kword - on the command line you can use this command to extract text from PDF:

pdftotext

NAME pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.00)

SYNOPSIS pdftotext [options] [PDF-file [text-file]]

DESCRIPTION Pdftotext converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to plain text.

   Pdftotext  reads  the  PDF  file, PDF-file, and writes a text file, text-file.  If text-file is not specified, pdftotext converts file.pdf to file.txt.  If
   text-file is ´-', the text is sent to stdout.
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  • I don't think the author wants an output in plain text, but rather a ODT or DOC word processing document that would retain all the formatting as seen in the original PDF.
    – titaniumtux
    Apr 8, 2012 at 5:15
  • @user30275: I do need to preserve the formating. Why installing pdf2text. If i need something like that then I can Simply use "Okular."
    – Curious Apprentice
    Apr 9, 2012 at 9:57
  • pdftotext is part of the default install of Ubuntu, you don't have to install it afterwards.
    – Clive van Hilten
    Apr 9, 2012 at 20:29
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Ok This is for all those who neither can open pdf using Kword nor using LibreOffice.

Install AbiWord with Software Center:

Install via the software center

Or with the Terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install abiword

With abiword you can easily open pdf files and then edit them.

Note: First try using LibreOffice. Then KWord. If none works then go for AbiWord.

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