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rjbull:
I have a copy of the Able2Extract desktop software (about three years old).  Darwin has one of the Nuance versions, and kindly converted the front page of a patent for me for comparison.  There wasn't much difference, but Darwin's copy of Nuance did a slightly better job, mainly by getting some bold text correct, whereas AbleExtract left it plain.  But you wouldn't expect a huge difference, because Able2Extract actually says it uses licensed Nuance technology.

For online conversions, you might also try Zamzar, which worked quite well for me except on tables containing code numbers with hyphens in them.  There's also Convert PDF to Word.net and online-convert.com which I haven't tried.

Curt:
http://www.123fileconvert.com/pdf-word-docs.asp
http://www.pdf-file.com/microsoft-word-converter.asp

Per instinct I would expect these two add-ins from Microsoft Office Marketplace to perform a fine job, but I have never tested them. Edited: I should tell that in the end I expect the two companies to be one and the same.

cmpm:
http://www.freewaregenius.com/2010/03/06/how-to-convert-pdf-to-word-doc-for-free-a-comparative-test/

This may help from freewaregenius.
Compares online and desktop apps.

edit-a few more

http://convertpdftoword.net/Default.aspx

http://www.free-pdf-to-word-converter.com/

http://www.pdfconverter.com/freepdfcreator/

Curt:
of course today's Bit du Jour offer is also capable of converting from PDF to Word:

http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/pdftiger/

Sunday 15 May 2011:

PDFTiger http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/pdftiger/
The Ultimate PDF Conversion App

PDFTiger makes it easy to convert text, image (BMP, JPG, TIF, and GIF), Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and in fact all printable documents into the PDF format.

But it works in reverse too!

When you need to utilize other formats, you can use PDFTiger to convert PDF files to Word, text, JPG, HTML, and even Flash formats.

Have a library of legacy documentation that you need to convert? With batch conversion capability, PDFTiger can convert 10,000,000 documents at once! That was no typo -- 10 MILLION FILES, CONVERTED IN BATCH!

The interface for PDFTiger is a joy to behold - use one side of the window to create a PDF file, and the other side to convert PDF to other formats.

It's that simple!

http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/pdftiger/
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xtabber:
of course today's Bit du Jour offer is also capable of converting from PDF to Word:

http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/pdftiger/

-Curt (May 15, 2011, 03:30 AM)
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So they claim, but not this document.  :down:

I downloaded PDFTiger from the BDJ site and tested it against the file I used for the tests above, and the result was a completely unreadable mess. It couldn't even get the plain text elements right, let alone the formatting.

That's not much of a bargain.

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