I want to convert a PDF file to DOC keeping the formatting. I found an article explaining how to do this with KWord, but when I installed KWord I got Caligra Words.
Import doesn’t support PDF files. Should I install an extra plugin for this extension, or install an older version of KWord?
To my knowledge there is no application that can do this without some dependency from Libre Office.
However you don't need to install the whole office suite when only performing commandline conversions.
You can try if the tool unoconv meets your needs. It has python and python-uno as a dependency. The latter will also install libreoffice-core as a dependency but not the whole office suite.
Until selection-printing will be enabled in Chromium you may be happy with the Chrome/Chromium Print Plus extension that (partly) enables selecting elements from a page to print.
Unfortunately selecting from PDF documents is not so easy and may be limited to whole pages.
Best Answer
Try using the online service zamzar.com
You can even email your file to doc@zamzar.com
Depending on the complexity of the formating there might bee some losses though.