
You can then open the DOCX file in Microsoft Office, or with the Apple Pages app to verify the conversion went smoothly. Google Docs is legitimately good at converting PDF files into a usable DOCX format and it often preserves formatting very well.

Option 1: Converting PDF Files to DOCX with Google Docs Keep in mind if the file in question has password protection, you’ll need to remove the PDF file password first, then start the conversion process afterwards. Finally, we’ll cover a more automated method that is an extension of the first text extraction approach, which can convert PDF to text files that you can edit, which is perhaps most appropriate for casual uses and with simple PDF files.

Next, we’ll show you a paid solution from Adobe which is a thorough and complex PDF to DOC converter tool that is best used for professional applications, and an alternative native Mac app which offers similar functionality.

First we’ll walk through how you can use Google Docs to convert a file to Word format, then we’ll who you how you can potentially extract the text from a PDF document which you can then turn into DOC or DOCX on your own.
