I work a lot with .pdf files that I convert to Word. In more and more recent cases, though, I find that the converted document looks like this --

I went tothe storeto buy groceries butthey were outof milk so I wentto the farm and gota cow soI don'thave togo back.

instead of --

I went to the store to buy groceries but they were out of milk so I went to the farm and got a cow so I don't have to go back.

I believe by now I have exported or saved to every available format, with the same result.

I would like to know the best way(s) to avoid this output, and instead to obtain a clean Word document that has the correct spacing.

I saw a string in this forum from six years ago on roughly the same subject, but it was not all that helpful.

Is freeware available that will correct this problem effectively?

Thanks very much for your time.