Saved Pages doc as pdf now I want to edit it

I created a document in Pages and saved it as a pdf, but I forgot to save a version that I can edit. How do I revert back to a document that I can edit? I usually save a Pages document and a second pdf document. Thank you!

Unfortunately, this is a common misconception. Application software has its own file format which is editable/revisable. There are two main types of application-independent e-paper format for interchange, the document markup type (ISO 8879 SGML family) where you save the character information and the logical reading order without saving the layout rendering order, and the document mastering type (ISO-IEC 10180 SPDL family) where you save the layout rendering order, but not the character information and the logical reading order. PDF falls in the second family and is not intended to be revisable/editable whereas HTML falls in the first family that was from the first intended to be revisable/editable. In other words, if what you have is a PDF, then you can try to manually copy out as much of the character information as possible, reconstruct the flow of paragraphs and columns, revise the character information, and select the imageable composition you want for the new document.
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