Using either Save As or the Export function in Right PDF, you are able to export the currently open PDF document to Text, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Open Document Text and other image formats.

Supported file formats

  •  PDF to Word. Right PDF (macOS) supports .doc and .docx. Created Word files retain the same names as the original documents.

  • PDF to Excel. Right PDF (macOS) supports .xls and .xlsx. Created Excel files retain the same names as the original documents.

  • PDF to PPT(PowerPoint). Right PDF (macOS) supports converting PDF to PowerPoint (*.pptx). Created PowerPoint files retain the same names as the original documents.

  • PDF to image. Right PDF (macOS) supports JPEG、JPEG 2000、PNG, and TIFF. Each page of the original documents is converted to images and saved separately to the folders with the same name as original documents.

  • PDF to text. Right PDF (macOS) supports *.txt in Simple and Unicode encoding.

  • PDF to ODT(Open Document Text). Right PDF (macOS) supports converting PDF to Open Document Text (*.odt). Created Open Document Text files retain the same names as the original documents.

Export using Save As command

  1. Open a PDF file and choose File > Save As. Choose My Computer > Save in Recent Folder…, and select a recent folder or click Choose Other…. If you want to save it to a cloud storage service, add an account and choose it.

  2. In the Save As dialog box, type a name and select a file format.

  3. If “Setting” is available, click on it to change format-specific conversion settings; if “Range” is available, click on it to set which pages to export.

  4. Click Save.

Export using Export functionality

  1. Open a PDF file and select File > Export.

  2. Select the file format and version for the output file.

    • Export to MS Office. You can choose to export PDF to Word (*.doc or *.docx), Excel Word (*.xls or *.xlsx), PowerPoint (*.xlsx), or OpenDocument(*.odt).

    • Export to Image. Select to export the PDF file to one of the four image formats. Each page of the PDF document will be saved as a separate file.

    • Export to Text. Select to export the PDF file to text in either Simple (*.txt) or Unicode (*.txt) encoding.

  3. In the Save As dialog box, select a location where you want to save the file.

  4. Click "Settings" and adjust the conversion settings in the pop-up dialog box, and click "OK". See Conversion settings for details.

  5. Click “Range” and choose between exporting all pages or specific pages.

  6. Click Save to convert.

Export selection to other formats

If you only need to export a part of the document to other formats, do as follows:

  1. Open a PDF file.

  2. Choose Basic > Select Area. Click and drag to select the area to export.

  3. Release the mouse and in the popup dialog box, choose Export Selection As.

  1. In the Save as dialog box, type a name and select a file format.

  2. Click Save.

Advanced Conversion settings

Before you click the Convert button, you may go to Convert Settings to change settings related to the output format. You can also enable OCR (select only the languages used in the document to boost accuracy) to make text searchable.

 

Image settings

In the Save As JPEG/JPEG2000/PNG/TIFF Settings dialog box, set up File Settings and Compression Settings and then click OK, or you can click Default to restore default settings:

  • JPEG and JPEG 2000

    • File Settings. Specify a color space and resolution for the output file. You can select Determine Automatically to let Right PDF automatically determine these settings for you.

      • Colorspace. Specify the type of color management applied to the output file. To convert color images in the file to shades of gray, choose Grayscale.

      • Resolution. Specify the resolution for the output file.

    • Compression Settings. From Grayscale and Color, specify compression settings that balance file size with image quality. The smaller the file, the lesser the image quality.

  • PNG

    • File Settings. Specify a color space and resolution for the output file. You can select Determine Automatically to let Right PDF automatically determine these settings for you.

      • Colorspace. Specify the type of color management applied to the output file. To convert color images in the file to shades of gray, choose Grayscale.

      • Resolution. Specify the resolution for the output file.

    • Compression Settings. Configure compression settings using the Interlace and Filter menus.

      • Interlace. Specify if the image is interlaced. If you select None, an image displays in a web browser only when downloading is complete. The other option, Adam7, creates an image that displays low-resolution versions in a browser while the full image is still downloading. Adam7 seems to shorten the download time yet it increases file size.

      • Filter. It lets you select a filtering algorithm.

        • None. Compress the image without a filter.

        • Sub. Optimize the compression of images with even horizontal patterns or blends.

        • Up. Optimize the compression of images with even vertical patterns.

        • Average. Optimize the compression of low-level noise by averaging the color values of adjacent pixels.

        • Paeth. Optimize the compression of low-level noise by reassigning adjacent color values.

  • TIFF

    • File Settings. Specify a color space and resolution for the output file. You can select Determine Automatically to let Right PDF automatically determine these settings for you.

      • Colorspace. Select the type of color management applied to the output file among RGB, CMYK, Grayscale, or Monochrome. To convert color images in the file to shades of gray, choose Grayscale.

      • Resolution. Specify the resolution for the output file.

    • Compression Settings. Configure the compression settings using the Monochrome, Grayscale and Color settings.

 

Word settings

In the Save As Doc/Docx/ODT Settings dialog box, select options as needed and then click OK or click Default to restore options to default settings:

  • Image Settings

    • Convert Images. It converts images within the file to a specific image type.

    • Clip Images so they look the same as in PDF. Convert files without changing the position of each image.

  • Path Settings

    • Convert path objects to Drawing Objects. Check this box to convert path objects (e.g. Clip Art images) to corresponding image objects.

    • Group huge numbers of path objects together and convert to images to reduce file size. To reduce files size, check this box to group huge numbers of path objects together and convert those to images.

  • Font Settings

    • Use similar fonts to replace fonts not installed on your system. Check this box to allow Converter to replace fonts not installed in your system with other similar fonts.

  • Layout Settings

    • Identify Tables In PDF. Check this box to ensure the tables in the PDF file will also show up in Word.

    • Use Textboxes to keep layout consistent. Inaccuracies may occur during the conversion process. Check this box to let Converter create text boxes for you to keep all the words and images in the intended places in Word.

    • Identify Paragraphs In PDF. Check this box to ensure paragraphs in PDF files will also show up in Word.

    • Apply vertical text flow to all texts regardless of vertical font in the document. Check this box to apply vertical text flow to all text in Word.

  • Languages to recognize
    You can select one or more languages for OCR.

    • Automatic language detection. Select to enable. It analyzes the content of the source document and assign a language to each page. You cannot manually select OCR language if this is enabled.

 

Excel settings

In the Save As Excel Settings dialog box, select options as needed and then click OK, or you can click Default to restore options to default settings:

  • Page Handling

    • Convert all pages on a sheet. Convert all pages and merge them into one Excel worksheet.

    • Split each page on a sheet. Convert each PDF page into separate Excel worksheet.

  • Image Settings

    • Convert without images. If you check this box, images in the PDF file will not be converted into the Excel document.

    • Turn white background transparent. Convert images with white background made transparent.

  • Border

    • Split sparse cell. Check this box to keep sparse text in the same format as in a PDF file. If this box is not checked, words in cells may be misaligned based on settings, such as aligning to top, center, left, right, and bottom.

    • Try building border-less table. Check to better recognize tables with no borders in PDF.

  • Languages to recognize
    You can select one or more languages for OCR.

    • Automatic language detection. Select to enable. It analyzes the content of the source document and assign a language to each page. You cannot manually select OCR language if this is enabled.

 

PowerPoint settings

  • Retain

    • Rule Lines. Keep or remove vertical and horizontal dividing lines between paragraphs.

    • Headers and Footers. Select this to detect headers and footers and transfer them to PowerPoint; deselect to transfer them as normal text.

    • Hyperlinks. Select this to detect and transfer hyperlinks; deselect to transfer link text as normal text.

    • Text and Background Color. Select this transfer text and background colors to the PowerPoint document; deselect this to make all text transferred black, and colored or shaded backgrounds white.

  • Languages to recognize
    You can select one or more languages for OCR.

    • Automatic language detection. Select to enable. It analyzes the content of the source document and assign a language to each page. You cannot manually select OCR language if this is enabled.

Export images from PDF

Besides exporting every page to an image format, you can also extract images from a PDF document and save them as separate image files.

  1. Open a PDF file that contains images.

  2. Do either of the following:

    • Choose Advanced > Export All Images.

    • Use the Select tool to click on the image and on the toolbar that pops up, select Save all image(s) to file(s)....

    • To export a part of an image, using the Select tool, hover the cursor over the image and the cross-hair icon appears. Drag an area, right-click on it, and select Save Image As... from the options.

  3. In the Save As dialog box, select target folder and click Save.


Select where to save exported images.

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