What is PDF Converter?

PDF Converter usually converts PDF file into another file format, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Plain text, html, image, and so on. It should have clear understanding of PDF document structure as well as target file format structure. For instance, a PDF to Word Converter must know PDF objects and Word file structure. In fact, there is no one to one mapping between PDF objects (text streams, images, shapes, etc) and Word document elements. Therefore, PDF Converter has to create compatible Word document elements for each PDF object. This process is further complicated because of the different PDF object attributes in different PDF versions.

PDF can be converted to various formats: doc, docx, xml, rtf, xls, xlsx, .htm, and so on. It can also be converted to many image formats:

AVS	JBIG	PGM	SUN
BMP Mono	JNG	PGM RAW	SVG
BMP Gray	JP2	PGNM	TGA
BMP Sep1	JPC	PGNM RAW	TIF Gray
BMP Sep8	JPG	PNG Mono	TIF 12 bit RGB
BMP 4 bit	JPG Gray	PNG Gray	TIF 24 bit RGB
BMP 8 bit	MNG	PNG 4 bit	TIF 48 RGB
BMP 24 bit	MPEG	PNG 8 bit	TIF 32 bit CMYK
BMP 32 bit	M2V	PNG 24 bit	TIF 64 bit CMYK
CIN	MTV	PKSM	TIF G3Fax no RLE
CMYK	OTB	PKSM RAW	TIF G3Fax RLE
CMYKA	P7	PKM	TIF 2DG3Fax
DCX	PALM	PKM RAW	TIF G4Fax
DIB	PAM	PNM	TIF LZW
DPX	PBM	PNM RAW	TIF PackBits
EMF	PBM RAW	PPM	TIF Sep
EPS 1	PCD	PPM RAW	TIF Sep1
EPS 1 Color	PCDS	PS 1	UIL
EPS 2	PCL	PS 1 Color	UYVY
FAX G3	PCX Mono	PS2	VICAR
FAX 2DG3	PCX Gray	PSD CMYK	VIFF
FAX G4	PCX 4 bit	PSD RGB	WBMP
FITS	PCX 8 bit	PTIF	XBM
GIF	PCX 24 bit	PXL Mono	XPM
GPLT	PCX CMYK	PXL Color	XWD
INFO	PDB	SGI	YCbCr