We have already written with which programs it is possible to convert a PDF into an editable Word document, but there is now a clearly simpler way. In fact, it is now possible to use the Office Online web app to convert a PDF and edit it with Word online, without downloading anything and from any computer in use.
With Word Online you can edit PDF documents in the browser itself, without having to download and upload or complicated conversion procedures.
The conversion is certainly not optimal for PDF documents with graphs, diagrams and tables, but if it is a PDF document with simple text, Word Online works perfectly.
To use Word Online, you must first log in to Onedrive with your Microsoft account.
The PDF documents you want to modify must be uploaded here, on Onedrive.com, by dragging them with the mouse or selecting them with the Upload button at the top.
Once the PDF document to be converted and edited in Onedrive is loaded, click on it to automatically open it in Word online.
Then click on the Edit document button at the top right, ask to convert the PDF into a Word file and finally press the Edit button.
The original file is copied and saved so you can make any changes you want using the Word web application which is almost identical to Word 2013.
Instead of Editing you could also press View, to see how that document is converted to Word and if you lose too much text formatting.
Once on Word online you can make any modification or addition without problems, then save the new file and download it again as PDF on your computer.
Using Word online to edit PDF files and convert them into editable text is certainly very convenient and works better than the same functionality present in Google Drive.
For more advanced needs there are however other programs to edit pdf files, extract the text and convert them into documents
