Convert a PDF to a Pages Document

In this video, we’re going to look at how we can convert a PDF to a Pages document or a Microsoft word document on the Mac. Let’s go to my. If we look at my Mac here, you’re going to see, I have a couple of PDFs here in the upper right-hand corner. Let’s go ahead and open these up to see what they look like.

We’re going to go with our first one here. I double click on it. It opens up in preview and we can see, we have just a basic PDF. There’s not a whole lot going on with this one. When you convert a PDF, these simple ones work pretty good. We have some texts. A few different pages, but there’s not a whole lot of format in there.

Let’s take a look at my other one. We have this document for Microsoft word. When I double click on it, this one here is formatted a little bit differently. It’s not your typical word processing type document. When we convert this a we’ll convert it into a Pages document or a Microsoft word document, but you’re going to have to clean this one up a little bit more.

The reason why I’m going to show you both is because this converter that I’m going to show you works with all types of PDFs, but the more simple, the PDF is the better it works. So now let’s take a look. This PDF here. I want to convert this one into a word document. So then I can open it up in Pages.

Well, the way that we do that is through Adobe’s website. There are a lot of different ways to do this. You can buy apps that do this exclusively, but what I have found is if you go to Adobe’s website, Adobe is the one that created the PDF. When you go to Adobe’s website, they do have a free conversion tool that you can use.

So why not just try it on their site and see how it works. So now I just go over to safari here. And then when I search here, what I do is I search for Adobe. Cause that’s what I’m looking for, PDF to word, and you could even go convert or just to narrow it down. So now I type in return there and you’re going to see, we have Adobe convert PDF.

I have one above it here, but this is an ad. This isn’t going to necessarily take me to the correct spot. What I want to do is I want to go to this one here. I want to convert my PDF to a word document. So now I click on this and we can see that we are at Adobe. Now this is free, but if you use it more than once, what they want you to do is sign up for a free account.

So I have used this before. So watch what happens when I drag this PDF here on top of this button, this is what you need to do to convert it. You just drag it on top of this website. So now I just take this and I drag it. It is uploading. It doesn’t take long. This was about five pages and you’re going to see it goes along pretty quick here and here.

It says your free account lets you down. Do whatever you need to do with it. So what I need to do is I need to create a free account in order to do this because I’ve already done this. Here’s a little trick, do this in a private window, open this up in a private window. So now what I’m going to do is click in here.

Copy it. And we go a new private window. I just go up under file here, new private window. And I paste now. It’s like, I’m in Cognito. If you’re using Chrome, this will be incognito. Now I can take the. And drag it on here and it’s not going to ask me to register. Now, if you use a slot, obviously I would recommend you register it as Adobe.

They’re reputable, let them know that you’re using it so that they can improve on it. But in this case, I just want to show you how it works. You can see that when I work with it in a private window, I can download it. So let’s go ahead and download this and take a look at it, click on it and now downloaded it to my download.

So we’re just going to open the. Let’s go ahead and close this window here. So we open it up. This is opening up in Pages. We can see we are in Pages here, and this is my document. So I’m going to do is zoom out here a little bit and we can see the first page there. It looks pretty good. We have our background.

I scroll up there’s my second page. If we recall, it looks very similar. The original document, you will have to tweak a few little things here and there, but for the most part, it does a pretty good job. When I go back over to the original, let’s go to the desktop here. Here’s the original we can see on this page, particularly it does a pretty good job.

There’s the original and.

There’s the editable copy. So now what I can do is I can go in here and edit a can see we have all of my different formatting tools here. This isn’t Apple Pages. Let’s take a look at the other document. So I close this and we’re going to go back over to safari. And now I’m going to open up a new private window again.

I’m not signed in under this account. I do have an Adobe account, but I’ve just not signed on under this account. So I paste in here, it opens it up in Cognito. And now I just take this document here and I drag it on top of. It’s going to convert it while it’s converting it. Let’s take another look at this.

We can see it’s formatted. We have some boxes here, images along with some formatted text. So this one here is going to be a little bit more tricky, but surprisingly enough, it does a pretty good job. You will have to go and tweak it. So now I’m ready to download it. Click on, download it, downloads it. I go to my downloads here and we open it up.

You can see it’s a doc X file because it converted it into a Microsoft word document, which I can open up in Pages. So now I just open this up and here it is, we’re going to zoom out a little bit here. 50%. And we can see it does a pretty good job. Again, being that this one is formatted more for graphics.

You are going to have to tweak it a little bit more, but it gets you in the general vicinity. So, depending on what PDF document you are trying to convert, if it’s heavily formatted, you may have to take some extra steps to get it, to look right in Microsoft word or Apple Pages. If it’s just a simple document, then it’ll convert pretty easy.

You won’t have to do a lot to. So that’s how you can convert a PDF into a word document. Basically, what you can do is use Adobe’s conversion tool. It is free, although if you do it more than once, they ask you to sign up for an account, but again, it is free. All you need to do is just search for Adobe PDF to word converter, and then just drag your PDF on top of the page, after a few seconds.

You can download the word document, being that it’s a word document. You can also open it up in Pages. If it’s a relatively simple PDF, you don’t have to do a lot of changes to it. But if there are a lot of layouts and a lot of images in it, then you may have to tweak it a little bit more, but it will give you a good start.

So that’s how you can convert PDFs into Microsoft word or Apple Pages documents on the Mac.