Currently, a workshop has been going on at the University of California San Diego which has been named as 'Beyond the PDF Workshop'. Pondering over why the workshop has been named so, we all realize this fact that much of today's science publishing is depended upon the use of static PDF files. It works as the direct platform for the electronic publication of various scientific research papers. Portable Document Format or PDF symbolizes the static printed page which the attendees at the workshop regard as a chain retarding scientific advancement. The on-going workshop intends to help ease out frustrations of those individuals who picture the traditional inanimate printed page as a convocation of unimaginative publishers. Why public scientific papers have not been published that look seamless, dynamic and interactive? The attendees at the workshop are here to sense the potential for immense efficiency gains in peer-review, research productivity, cross-referencing and much more than that. Experts are of the say that if publishers, institutions and pdf to word technology professionals work together then the pace of progress would accelerate, encompassing in-built interactive analysis tools, source materials, etc. Another assumption made is that the market for science publishing is small and vulnerable! To revolutionize science publishing, it is said to be an ideal case for open source solutions. This can be said that there is a lot of room and opportunity for open source and commercial solutions alike, and it seems that the solution is closely available to us.

One question which keeps arising, 'Why PDF'?
Some people are of the belief that the concept of page is a mere convention. In argument, such people say that physical, and self-contained documents are immaterial to the dissipation of knowledge. They are of the opinion that the page is an anachronism born out of various technologies, which are thousands of years older to the computing technology of today.

Nanopublishing is an idea which science publishing should facilitate with a single assertion. The idea comprises amalgamation of metadata, text and sources, which are more like a string of sentences put together including a set of hyperlinks. Nanopublishing is so new that there is no Wikipedia page rank for it which exists. Some people are optimistic that it is going to be the second coming of scientific publishing. PDF to word converter however may still remain to be a great technical solution. But this is true that science engineering is not possible if there is no source to easily record, refer and communicate your material!