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How to convert PDF to word on Mac?

  • 09-10-2011 9:11am
    #1
    winan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭


    Hi,guys.Is there any one tell me how to convert PDF to word on Mac?
    I am a teacher from New York.Recently I have a download some PDF file need to transfer to word as material for my working.As I use Mac OS has been doubly difficult for me,beacuse I am not familiar with mac system.
    So any idea helpfully would be appreciated.


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  • #2
    snappieT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭snappieT


    Not possible I'm afraid. Think of PDF as a digital version of a printed out piece of paper. You wouldn't expect to be able to scan a (rich) document and have it open exactly as was in Microsoft Word, and the same applies here. There are techniques that will convert, but don't expect to get anything close to the original.


  • #3
    conor.hogan.2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,246 ✭✭✭conor.hogan.2


    select all copy and paste into a word doc? providing it is a selectable pdf and not a scan.


  • #4
    kellymartin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭kellymartin


    I think that You will need an extra application like Adobe Acrobat. Converting PDF to Word is not so easy (on any OS). I tried this once on a Windows PC, but the result was so bad, that I gave up. I don't know how many documents You have and what You need them for. But sometimes it is just quicker to just copy the text from the PDF and to paste it in a word editor and to edit it there.
    Also, you may try this tutorial about how to convert PDF files to Word on Mac. Once they're converted, you can open the files Microsoft Word or a compatible word processor.
    Hope it can do you a favor.

    Greetings


  • #5
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    could print it out and scan it with OCR if you have that option available to you. won't be 100% though.


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