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Automator PDF is a great file format for sharing and distributing documents while keep all formatting, layout, structure etc. preserved. However, sometimes you may need to extract the text from a PDF, copy some pages, and even edit the contents in Microsoft Word, or other Word processors. There are dazzling PDF to Word converters available to help you achieve this goal. But in this post, we
will tell you the cheapest way, without downloading and installing any software. Do you know Automator, http://www.apple.com/osx/apps/all.html#automator which is part of Mac OS X? Many new Mac OS X users are unware it exists and ignore how useful it can be. Actually it is an awesome handy utility allowing users to automate tasks in order to save time and effort to change files manually. And one of its uses is extracting Text from a PDF file.
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Automator Let's see how Automator helps you to convert Adobe PDF to editable MS Word. Step 1. Open Applications folder on your Mac and double click the little silver robot to launch Automator. Then there is a screen display requiring you to make a workflow. Step 2. Towards to the leftmost column and click on the button of "Files & Folders". Then, drag "Ask For Finder Items" from the second column and drop to the workflow section at the right of the window. Step 3. Next, turn to the leftmost column again and click on "PDFs" button. Drag "Extract PDF Text" from the second column and drop it underneath
All rights reserved—http://www.pdf-to-doc.org/ the first item "Ask For Finder Items". You will see several options you can set. We suggest you to choose "Rich Text" if you want to retain formatting, as well as most text editors can handle Rich Text format.
(The finished workflow should look like the picture above.) Name your workflow by pressing Command-S, and then choose Application from the pop-up menu of File Format. After that, click on Save and now you can start to use the application you create by yourself. Just select a PDF file you want to convert, and then let Automator do the rest job. User Tips: Convert PDF to Doc with Automator, the output files will end with the file extension .rtf. But you should know that it is only with text formatting but no layout, no columns and so on. The text will be messy somehow. If you want to convert PDF to Doc on Mac instantly but with all the original elements and layout exactly preserved, PDFtoWordforMac http://www.pdf-todoc.org/pdf-to-word-converter-for-mac/ is your ideal choice.
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