Tip: Export it in Rich Text format to maintain a little formatting. Open a blank document on Notes, Microsoft Word, or Google Docs and paste the text using Cmd+V.Select the text you want to copy and click Cmd+C.Right-click to select Open With > Preview and open the document with Preview.Otherwise, it doesn’t copy all your formatting, and you must do it repeatedly.īut this is one of the least effort methods, so let’s try it out. This comes in handy when you have to convert a simple text-based file. You can use Preview to just copy-paste the text from PDF. Preview is Mac’s default app for reading PDFs. How to convert a PDF to Word on a Mac with Preview? Get a free product tour or Start your free trial. Or find out how you can extract text from PDF to word on Mac using no-code workflows with Nanonets. In this blog, we will see four ways to convert PDF to Word on Mac for free:Ĭheck out Nanonets' free PDF to text converter. But how to do so without paying Adobe’s fees? job portals or assignment submissions)Ĭonverting your PDF to a word document makes the document more accessible, editable, and shareable. To share files on portals where only word documents are accepted.

To reuse the content written in the PDF into other formats.

To make changes to text, format, or other media content.

Here are some reasons you may choose to convert your PDF to a Word document: Code: Select allvar f = File('/c/captures/a.PDF is the most used document format in the world, but it’s optimal for reading and sharing, not editing. Also, I don’t need to write anything to the tags as this code does (I’d prefer just to delete or wipe the content and/or tags so they don’t show up). This code doesn't require Photoshop which I like and could be done with Automator, but it only references the one tag. I don’t have much coding experience, but I found the JavaScript code below on PS-Scripts as a starting point. While that works great for me, I have lots of vendors that would need this in their workflows so it would be easier for them to use an action with the Photoshop Events Manager 'On Document Open', or via an Automator script (JavaScript or AppleScript) in their workflows than installing ExifTool. I can do this with Exiftool with this code: exiftool -m -overwrite_original_in_place -EXIF:ImageDescription= -XMP-dc:Description= -IPTC:Caption-Abstract= FILE

I am trying to remove the tags/descriptions below from TIF, PSD and PSB images: Is there an equivalent of deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC, 'description”) or some way to clear out EXIF:ImageDescription, XMP-dc:Description and IPTC:Caption-Abstract with a Photoshop Script (ie, JavaScript or AppleScript)?

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