I've converted several large pdf files to Word using Omnipage Pro ver
12, and "most" of the formatting is retained.
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If I can turn an egg into an omelette, then why can't I turn an
omelette back into an egg? Or, another popular one to explain the
Word-PDF-Word problem: if I can make sausages out of cows, why can't I
make cows out of sausages?

It's because PDF is based on the concept of the printed page - a
visual representation of what your document should look like when
printed. All (well, most anyway) the underlying intelligence that Word
uses and needs to correctly format a document is gone - headers,
footers, paragraphs, tables, tabs, bulleting, graphics frames, page
reflow... Trying to reconstruct all that is an extremely complicated
exercise, and will always be more an art than a science. Still, there
are products out there that give it their best shot, such as the one
suggested by the other poster.

Don't blame the good Adobe folks that invented PDF - they did so to
help people exchange, view and print the final result of your work
(e.g. a Word document). A digital printout, if you will. And nowadays,
Acrobat technology gives you a lot of bells and whistles to keep a lot
of extra information in the PDF - hyperlinks, metadata and other
document structure elements.

Jeroen Dekker
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