In December, we released the long-awaited, major update for Nitro PDF Express – the streamlined, lightweight, and low-cost way to create and convert PDF files. With all the creation and conversion features of the award-winning Nitro PDF Professional, Nitro Express utilizes all-new interface, and contains a host of improvements and additions to make the PDF essentials even easier, faster, and more inexpensive than ever before.

Nitro Express provides the power of PDF creation from 300+ file-types, full control over document security, and is the only product in its class with the capability to quickly combine multiple files into one PDF document, or extract individual PDF pages.

With an array of exciting new features, Nitro Express v2.0 includes all-new, industry-leading PDF-to-Word conversion; improved PDF creation technology that performs up to 50% faster; a completely revised user interface; and major improvements to the underlying PDF library for faster processing of all files.

The first thing you’ll notice when opening Nitro Express is the revised main menu, giving you access to all of Nitro Express’ features — with one click of the mouse.

Nitro Express v2 utilizes the same, class-leading PDF-to-Word conversion engine of Nitro Pro, and today, we’re going to take a quick overview of how it works, and highlight the accuracy of the conversion.

To demonstrate how accurate the conversion in Nitro Express is, we’re going to use a test document, comprising images, a table and graph from Excel®, and some text.

In the example above, you can see that it’s a relatively complex document, containing a range of different objects – the biggest challenge most of us face when converting PDF-to-Word, is the loss or incorrect conversion of different elements within our original PDF. This adds an element of frustration to the process, resulting in Word files that are editable, but perhaps not as much as you might have hoped.

Note that the nature of PDF files can often prevent conversion with 100% accuracy, not due to the conversion process, but as a result of the way in which the original PDF was created.

For example: images in a PDF will be converted to images in your Word document, so scanned text will require Optical Character Recognition (released with Nitro Pro this month!) if you wish to edit it upon conversion.

To convert the PDF to Word, simply open Nitro Express and select the ‘Convert PDF to Word’ feature.

1. Click the ‘Add Files’ button and when the window appears, simply select the document you wish to convert.
2. Once you’ve selected the PDF file, you’ll see it in the list – you can proceed to add as many documents as you’d like to convert – Nitro Express is the only product in its class to offer batch-processing functionality across a range of features, making working with multiple documents easier than ever before.
3. Click the ‘Next’ button.
4. Select the output location (where you’d like your completed Word document to be saved)
5. Click ‘Convert’.

The end result is a Word document that retains the look and feel of your original PDF file, but can be edited completely.

As you can see in the above screenshot (taken in Word), Nitro Express has retained the exact formatting of the original file, converted the table perfectly (preserving the original layout and formatting), and retained the chart as an editable object – now, you can even change the colors or formatting used.

Find out more about Nitro PDF Express.