I just converted my first pdf to Word (working on a Mac). Result is total gibberish. What am I doing wrong?

I just tried for the first time to convert a pdf to Word. Result was total gibberish, a bunch of meaningless symbols. What am I doing wrong?

You've done nothing wrong. The issue is how the internals (not what you "see") were painted to the PDF page (yes, PDF page content is "painted").
Export of PDF page content is very much a GIGO process.
Goodstuff In = Goodstuff Out
or
Garbage In = Garbage Out
Looks like you have the latter.
Anway - Provided one has a well-formed Tagged PDF (see 14.8 of ISO 32000-1) export is typically rather pleasing.
Tagged PDF has two core design criteria - support Accessible PDF and support repurpose (aks export / save as other) of PDF.
For that well-formed PDF you want an ISO 14289-1 (PDF/UA-1) compliant PDF.
Best is to output the well-formed Tagged PDF from an appropriate authoring application that has robust tag management.
But that's the job of the content author rather than you.
About all you can do is to communicate to the PDF provider that they are delivering flawed "goods".
Be well...

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Hi, sorry I should have put that in my original post.
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Bonjour, non cela ne fonctionne toujours pas!
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Le 24 sept. 2014 à 11:40, florencejohn <[email protected]> a écrit :
Je n'arrive pas à convertir un fichier PDF en Word
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Salut,
S'il vous plaît laissez-moi savoir si votre abonnement fonctionne bien maintenant?
Cordialement,
Florence
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Puedes usar los servicios en linea, algunos incluso gratis, escribe en la ventana de buscar de la web de Adobe:
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