A PDF lands in your inbox, but the real work happens in Pages and Keynote — a proposal to rewrite, a deck to present, figures to update. Pasting the PDF over leaves shattered formatting and text boxes that refuse to line up. PDF to iWork closes that gap: drop in your file and get a genuine Pages or Keynote document back, with text, images, and charts exactly where they belong. Even scans and handwritten notes come through — and nothing ever leaves your Mac.
System Requirement: macOS 13.5 or later · Native support for Apple Silicon and Intel
The deadline-night rewrite. Your manager sends back a PDF proposal and asks you to restructure a section, swap in new numbers, and have it ready by morning. But the file is read-only — you can highlight it, you just can’t change it. Pasting it into Pages scatters the headings, breaks the columns, and orphans every chart, so the “quick edit” turns into an evening of rebuilding the whole document by hand.
The presentation that only exists as a PDF. You’re five minutes from walking into a meeting, and the only copy of the report is a PDF. There’s no slide navigator, no presenter display — just a Preview window you’ll awkwardly scroll through while the room watches. What you need is a Keynote deck, and rebuilding dozens of pages before the meeting simply isn’t going to happen.
The notes that never made it onto your Mac. Some of your best material lives on paper: handwritten meeting notes, a signed form straight from the scanner, a phone photo of a whiteboard. Getting it into your Mac means typing every line yourself — and if you’ve ever run a scan through an ordinary converter, you already know it can come back with nothing at all.
One conversion, and the document is yours again. PDF to iWork is built for these moments: turn a PDF into a living Pages document you can keep writing, or a Keynote deck you can actually present; let on-device OCR read scans and handwriting; preview every file and cherry-pick just the pages you need; and work through a whole folder of documents in a single pass. The app itself speaks ten languages, and every bit of it runs locally on your Mac.
That report doesn’t have to be a dead end. One conversion and the PDF is a genuine Pages document — real headings, real paragraphs, real text boxes — with charts and pictures sitting right where they were. Need to stand up and present it instead? Send the same file to Keynote and walk through it slide by slide.
The ideas worth keeping don’t always arrive as digital files — they’re scribbled in a notebook, captured on a signed form from the scanner, or snapped on a phone after a whiteboard session. Built-in OCR reads printed pages and handwriting alike, turning them into text you can search, quote, and keep editing.
Quarter-end rarely hands you one tidy document — it hands you a folder full of PDFs. Line them up in a single queue, flip through each one in the built-in preview to confirm what’s inside, and convert the whole pile or only the pages worth keeping.
2-5,9,14-18The interface speaks English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, 한국어, Español, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, and Português — work in the language you actually think in.
Queue up an entire folder and let it run. Each PDF becomes its own document — no repetitive open, save, convert routine.
Verify pages in the built-in viewer and select only the ranges you need, so you never rework a 200-page file you didn’t want.
Conversion and OCR both happen on your Mac. No accounts, no uploads, no copies lingering on someone else’s machine.
Got a PDF heavy enough to bounce from an inbox or stall an upload — especially one packed with scans? Take a look at PDF Compress Expert for Mac. Dial in DPI and image quality to shrink it, batch-compress a whole folder at once, and check the result in a side-by-side preview before you save.