Convert a PDF to Word Using Google Drive

How many times have you needed to edit a PDF, but couldn't do it as easily as you had hoped? Today I want to share how you can use Google Drive to help convert that PDF document into an editable MS Word document.

The first thing you need to do is simply click and drag your PDF document into your Drive Window to upload it to Drive.

Then, select your document in Drive and click the More Actions button (it's the one with the three vertical dots).  Select Open With Google Docs.

Your PDF will open with Google's word processing program, Docs.  It will convert your document page by page.  You will see the first page as an image followed by the conversion of that image into editable text on the following page.  At this point, you can choose to keep the image or remove it altogether.

Once you have removed any images you don't need, then you should be left with editable text.  You can certainly edit within Google Docs, but if you specifically need to work in MS Word, then you have one easy step left.  Go to the File menu and select Download As...Microsoft Word (.docx). That's all there is to it.  Now, you have a MS Word file that you can you edit as you please.

If you're a visual learner like myself, you can watch this short screencast to view the process from beginning to end.

Feel free to leave me comments if you have any questions or leave me a suggestion for a future post.

~Rosie