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jerome_hilaire
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January 15, 2018
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Action Wizard fails to convert multiple pdf to docx

  • January 15, 2018
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Hello,

I am using the trial version of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (version 18.009.20050).

I want to convert a few hundreds of pdfs to Word documents (docx).

Although this works fine on a single pdf document (using the PDF export function), using the batch processing (Action Wizard) generates damaged and unreadable docx files. Word complains that it can't open them.

Could you please let me know how I could fix this problem?

Thanks and regards,

Jerome

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Correct answer Bernd Alheit

Good to know that it works as it is supposed to do on your machine.

I wonder why I get this problem on mine...

Could it be a problem with the trial version?

Or is it rather a problem with my configuration?

My laptop is a HP business-notebook with 4 i5-3360M Intel cores and 8GB memory running under Windows 10 Pro

I saw in the text editor that Acrobat seems to be using LaTex to convert pdf to docx.

         <xmp:CreatorTool>LaTeX with hyperref package</xmp:CreatorTool>

I had already install LaTEx via the MikTex package prior to installing Adobe Acrobat.

Could that be the problem?


Repair the Acrobat installation.

The PDF file was created with Latex. Adobe Acrobat doesn't use this.

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gkaiseril
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January 15, 2018

You will need Acrobat Pro. You then create a new action and you only need to set the output options to save the PDF as a Word document.

This will not improve the conversion process, so any file that cannot converted by your current process.

jerome_hilaire
jerome_hilaireAuthor
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January 15, 2018

I am using the professional version of Acrobat.

The trial version seems to offer all functionalities of Acrobat Pro but only for a limited period of time.

I did create a new action in the Action Wizard.

I specified the folder containing all the pdfs and the export format (i.e. docx).

I then clicked on the start button and Acrobat processed all the pdfs.

The issue is that all docx files generated this way cannot be open with Word.

Yet if I open any of these pdfs in Acrobat and use the export function to convert it to a docx, Acrobat creates a docx file that Word can open.

Bernd Alheit
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Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 15, 2018

What happens when you open the files in Word?

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