FineReader blog

The global PDF software market continues to grow at a rapid pace, from about 2.2 billion USD in 2021 to 3.5 billion USD expected by 2026 i. PDF mindshare is constantly growing—and PDF has even overtaken popular items such as iPhone in Google trends in 2022 i.

Apple® computer users commonly use Microsoft® Office apps such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to work with documents. So, questions about how to convert PDFs to editable Word documents on Mac®, Excel spreadsheets, or PowerPoint slide decks remain relevant. Quite often, documents aren’t created from scratch: we tend to reuse other content, quote sources, or use existing documents as templates—and many of those source documents are PDFs.

These days it’s almost unimaginable not having a PDF tool for daily use. Whether we come across documents in paper or digitized formats, more often than not, some sort of manipulation is needed to make the most of information in the documents. So, without a full-fledge PDF tool, this makes document processing tasks at hand very slow and difficult.