Help locating a PDF to Pages or Keynote Converter please.

[fishingfromakay]

I am using a M1 Macbook with Monterey. I am having trouble finding information about a good PDF to either Pages or Keynote converter. I have some Google Quizzes that I want to be able to edit and print and the Google print format is not that good. There are a few converters in the App Store but the ones I found don't have ratings. I dont mind spending a few bucks for it. Has anyone used one and liked it ? I have over 100 of Google pages that I would like to convert. Thank you for your time and any help/suggestions.

 

[AZhappyjack]

I am using a M1 Macbook with Monterey. I am having trouble finding information about a good PDF to either Pages or Keynote converter. I have some Google Quizzes that I want to be able to edit and print and the Google print format is not that good. There are a few converters in the App Store but the ones I found don't have ratings. I dont mind spending a few bucks for it. Has anyone used one and liked it ? I have over 100 of Google pages that I would like to convert. Thank you for your time and any help/suggestions.

Not exactly what you asked for, but I've used Textify to run OCR and save the file as text with excellent results... In my experience, it works equally as well against .PDF or image files.

The creator has been fairly active on MR, as well.

‎OCR Text Recognition: Textify

‎Text recognition (OCR) with mind-blowing quality finally made easy, super efficient, and confidential (no server, your data stays on your device). Textify analyzes images (or PDFs), recognizes text, and creates PDF files with the text integrated such that the files are searchable. Or you can...

apps.apple.com

Textify - Text recognition (OCR) made easy and accurate #1 Product of the Day PH

Textify I'm glad to introduce Textify. 🚀 Textify is a macOS app to recognize text on any image/PDF, and to export to PDF with the text integrated! Text recognition (OCR) has never been so easy and so accurate. Key features Save result as a PDF with the text integrated above the image such...

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[fishingfromakay]

@dwfaust Thank you for the help, it looks promising, Im going to take a look at it.

 

[Dave Braine]

I have used Tessa in the past. Worked ok, just needed minor corrections for spelling etc.

‎OCR from image or pdf - Tessa

‎Tessa extracts text from your image or PDF documents, processing each page multiple times to optimize recognition, so that the time you spend in proofreading and correcting mistakes is minimized. The editing tools available in the app allow you to modify pages before they are processed so that...

apps.apple.com

 

[fishingfromakay]

I ended up using "Cleverpdf.com" and it worked good.

 

[fishingfromakay]

I have used Tessa in the past. Worked ok, just needed minor corrections for spelling etc.

‎OCR from image or pdf - Tessa

‎Tessa extracts text from your image or PDF documents, processing each page multiple times to optimize recognition, so that the time you spend in proofreading and correcting mistakes is minimized. The editing tools available in the app allow you to modify pages before they are processed so that...

apps.apple.com

@Dave Braine Thank you for the help/time. I am going to hold on to that "Tessa" for future use. I think I will be doing this more often then I thought,,, lol lol

 

[ignatius345]

This is for a different use, but I'll leave it here in case someone stumbles on it later:

If you want to place pages from a multi-page PDF into a Keynote presentation (one slide per page), this will do that

PDF to Keynote

PDF to Keynote

www.cs.hmc.edu

I used it years ago at an old job, surprised to see it still functions.

Caveats: 1) you have to right-click the application to open it because it predates code-signing; 2) there's not much of a UI, but once it opens, use File > Open to pick your PDF; 3) In preferences, disable "Auto Open" or Keynote will throw up an error and; 4) It will save in Keynote '09 format, but the current Keynote will open and convert for you.

Anyway, it solves a very specific problem, if you need it!