How to recover formatted PDF files?

Did you ever think that one day you will need to recover formatted or lost PDF files from hard drive? This article will give you a solution for formatted PDF recovery and introduce of PDF. For deleted PDF document recovery, please refer to How to Recover Deleted PDF Files?

About PDF

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. Adobe PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system. Each Adobe PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout 2D document that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics which compose the documents. Lately, 3D drawings can be embedded to PDF documents with Acrobat 3D using U3D or PRC and various other data formats.

If I lost PDF files due to format my storage device, what can I do?

Sometimes if you formatted hard disk or USB flash disk by mistake, but there are many important files such as PDF files you want to get back. In this situation, you should use data recovery software to recover your formatted PDF files and other desired files. Here a free formatted PDF recovery software is recommended to recover your PDF files after format.

Formatted PDF recovery with free format recovery software

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is a FREE, fast and safe format recovery solution for formatted PDF recovery from storage device. This free data recovery software provides easy and quick data recovery solutions to recover formatted PDF files.

Steps to recover formatted PDF files by EaseUS free data recovery software

When you launch EaseUS free data recovery software, There are three modules you can choose to recover formatted PDF files.

Free PDF format recovery software

"Deleted File Recovery" is for deleted PDF file recovery; "Complete Recovery" helps do PDF document format recovery, recover PDF files lost due to virus attack, software crash, etc; "Partition Recovery" is used when partition is lost, deleted or corrupted.

So you should choose "Complete Recovery" to do formatted PDF recovery. Here are steps:

Step 1: Launch the free PDF format recovery software, and click "Complete Recovery" module. Then you will see the interface of choosing file types you want to recover. Click "Next", a list of volumes on the drives found in your system will be listed. Choose the formatted device which you want to recover PDF files from and click 'Next'.

Free PDF format recovery software - select drive

Step 2: After the scan, choose "High" suggestion partition(s) to recover formatted PDF files, click 'Next' button.

Free PDF format recovery software - select partition

Step 3: Select the PDF files that you want to restore and press the "NEXT" button. And then select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save the data.

Apart from recovering formatted PDF files, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition also supports recovering almost all kinds of file types like word files, video, music, applications etc. And it supports recovering data from SD Cards, Compact Flash Cards and Memory Cards, etc.

You can free download this data recovery software now with the detailed instructions to have a fair idea whether your formatted PDF files can be recovered.

If you are running Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) & 10.6 (Snow Leopard) & 10.5 (Leopard), please go to see EaseUS Mac data recovery software.

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