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I downloaded a PDF to Word converter. It works find but the doc file it created is 512 mb. When I try to open this file I get an error "word cannot open this file because it is larger than 512 megabytes". The PDF file is only 582 KB in size. It is 8 pages long and contains 12 illustrations. What do I need to do? BTW there is also a file with the same name but with a RTF extension that I didn't create and it's 50.9 MB in size. Not all converters are equal, but such conversion tools are not perfect. Since a PDF is essentially a picture (depending on the source document and how it was turned into a PDF in the first place), the conversion to Word usually involves converting recognizable text to regular text and anything else to a picture or part of one. For instance, bordered tables are typically converted to a combination of the text and a picture which shows the borders. This picture is the size of the page and sits on the graphics layer of the Word document. Furthermore, when the...

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