Can I convert a PDF to Pages?

Apple does not provide a tool to convert PDFs into Pages, or Word document formats. If you can copy/paste between the PDF and Pages, and presuming that the PDF has no user permissions or copyrights preventing this action, it is the only free solution that allows you to retain control over the Pages content, and not incur lost hours of PITA reformatting from so-called web conversion solutions.

If you already have access to MS Word 16.31 or later, you can open a PDF and convert to Word. Then either edit and reformat in Word, or open that resulting Word document in Pages so it can be translated into Pages internal (.pages) document format. In either application, you can then subsequently save/export back to PDF.

Adobe offers a PDF conversion service (subscription) that allows you to open a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, and upload it to an Adobe account where their server-side software will convert the PDF to Word, and then provide you a download link.

And then, some paid PDF editors can open a PDF and convert it to a Word document, or even allow you to reformat/edit the original PDF content.

oups 😬 Sorry, I misread. Yes, you can, you need a mac and open the document with the pages app: open the pages app > select the document

You're probably either going to need the paid version of Acrobat or another paid application. You might try hunting around for a website that will do it for you but, if there's anything confidential or proprietary in the document, I would think carefully about that route.

Apple offers the Preview PDF reader with the operating system. It is purposely designed for opening most PDF documents. It is not however, a PDF Editor for revising original PDF content. Those cost money.

Pages is a word processing application. Like all other word processing applications on the market, it is designed for that purpose alone, and none incorporate a PDF reader/editor as part of the word processing application. That would be really expensive and a nightmare to support.

You can drag/drop a single page PDF onto a Pages document and it becomes a document object whose content you cannot alter beyond resizing and positioning. Otherwise, you convert a PDF document as I outlined in my previous solved post and then incorporate that content into Pages by opening the Word document.

Yes, look : Convert Pages documents to PDF, Microsoft Word, and more - Apple Support

VikingOSX ; Convert Document

How does the PDF end up in Pages ? It's remarkable that there isn't a way to open & edit

them in the App . 🤔