I have this pdf file
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/thhjvtlzebe20ab/AADVLBVntblYi4Nyi_SlXVRNa?dl=0
which contains English and Arabic language. I want to convert it to .docx file and there are many ways but none of them give excellent results.
- If I open the pdf file using MS Office 2016 I get the right formatting and all Arabic letters are converted correctly. But I lose almost every shape/drawings that are in the document.
- If I convert the pdf file to .docx file I get all the shapes/drawings but then I get a bunch of page breaks, section breaks, column breaks etc. and in addition 70% of the Arabic words are not converted correctly.
- I can get rid of the breaks using a VBA code and I can repair most of the bad converted Arabic words using another code but there are still many words left where I have to correct them manually.
- Using google docs gives a bunch of mess.
- Using Abbyy finereader also results in a mess of words.
Some useful information:
- This file was created using MS Office word 2013. I lost the original files because my hard drive broke and only did backup the pdf files. Everything has the same font which is (times new roman)
Edit: I used adobe acrobat pro to convert from pdf to .docx file
If I just copy and paste the Arabic words from pdf to word document using the paste option " keep text only " I get almost perfect results. But I have over 250 pages and this will consume time that I don't have.