Apowersoft PDF Converter is a professional and versatile desktop tool for converting and managing PDF files. It works perfectly on your Windows and Mac computer. You may find it easy to use, but in case you may encounter some troubles while managing your PDF documents, here we will explain in details about how it works.

Detailed Apowersoft PDF Converter User Guide

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To use this program to manage and convert PDF files, click the button below to download and install the program on your computers.
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Convert

Apowersoft PDF Converter can convert PDF to other formats and vice versa. Moreover, it is able to convert files in batch. Here we take Word to PDF as an example, and show you the detailed steps how to convert with it.

• Open the program, go to “To PDF” and choose “Word to PDF”.
• Drag and drop the file(s) you want to convert, or click “Choose file” to add the file(s).
• Click the “Convert” button to start the processing.
• Once the conversion completes, you can click “Open folder” to see the processed file(s).

Tips:

1. If your files are separated in different folders, you can select the documents in one folder first, and then click “Choose file” button around bottom right to add other files you need.

   

2. You can drag and drop to change the order of the files to be converted.
3. If you want to delete the file, you can use the button under “Operation”. And if you want to remove all the files under one tab, you can click the “Clear” button to empty the files in the program with one hit.

   

4. For PDF to Word and Excel, you can choose the output format.
5. You can click the three dots button beside the output directory to change the output folder.

Images to PDF

The method above can be applied to all the converting functions, however, for images to PDF, there are more options, so here we will tell you how to convert JPG/PNG to PDF with Apowersoft PDF Converter.

• Add the images to the program. Here, you can preview the image and change the order of images.
• Click to set the PDF size, orientation, and output folder. Also, you can decide whether to combine all images into one PDF, or output images as PDF separately.
• Once everything is customized, you can click “Convert” to start the process and get the file(s).

Merge PDF

This PDF converter can also help you to combine multiple PDF files into one.
Use the same method to import the selected files to the program. The program will display the thumbnail of each file’s first page. Then you can also drag to reorder the files. Once done, you can use the “Convert” button to merge PDF.

Split PDF

Unlike the features above, Split PDF allows you to process one PDF at one time. Below is how it works.

• Firstly, drag a file and drop it to the program. You will see all the thumbnails of a PDF file.
• Secondly, you can choose extract every page into a PDF or select pages to extract. If you want to extract selected page(s), you can click the thumbnail(s), or type the page number in the field box.
• Once done, click “Convert” to split.

Extract Images

With this feature, you can extract all the JPG or PNG images in PDF documents.
Like conversion features, you need to choose files first. After that, you can choose the image output format, and then you can extract images with one click.

A few seconds later, all the pictures will be extracted into one folder.

Compress PDF

Have a lot of large files and want to reduce them in a fast way? Go to “Compress PDF” tab, you can import multiple documents, and then compress them by hitting the “Convert” button.

Unlock PDF

Apowersoft PDF Converter can unlock your PDF files with one click.

• Click “Choose files” to add the documents.
• When you import the files, you will see a window popping up and asking you to enter the password. Type the password of the document.
• After you finish entering the passwords, you can click “Convert” to save the files as unlocked PDFs.

Note:
This method can only remove the protection of a PDF file when you know the password.

Protect PDF

No matter you want to add protection to one or more files, you can easily do that with this PDF converter.

• Import the documents you want protect.
• When adding the file, a window will pop up. And you need to enter the password and hit “OK” to confirm your operation. If you choose more than one file, you can add different passwords one by one, or if you want to protect them with the same password, you can click “Apply to All”.

  

• Hit “Convert” to protect and save the file(s).

OCR

With OCR tool, you can extract text from JPG, PNG, and PDF files. It has several output formats: txt, docx, xlsx, and pptx. However, inside the program, you can only output as txt, other formats are web-based solutions.

• Drag the files to the program.
• Choose the language of the file content.
• Click the “Convert” button and wait for a while.
• When it finishes conversion, you can open the folder to find the TXT files.

Settings

At the upper right corner of the program, you can see a dropdown button, under it, there is a “Settings” option, you can click it to choose the conversion mode.
There are “Speed Priority” and “Quality Priority”. Generally, the program sets “Quality Priority” as the default option, which makes sure to output files with high quality.

FAQ

1. Why can’t I edit my converted Word/Excel/PPT? What should I do?
That may due to the files are scanned document or the text in the PDF are actually image formats. In that case, even though you convert them to Word, Excel or PPT, the content is not editable. And then, you need to consider using OCR tool to extract the words.
2. I encountered a problem while using Apowersoft PDF Converter, what should I do?
If you have any question or encounter any trouble while using our program, you can click the dropdown button at the top right corner and go to “Feedback”. After that, you need to enter your email, describe your issue with the details, and check “Send log file”. If it is convenient to you, you can also attach your file(s) or the screenshot of error message that you cannot work with, and send them to us.

We’d also like to hear your voice about our program, so if you have any suggestion to our PDF Converter, welcome to send email to support@apowersoft.com.