To convert PDF to a Word document without adding headers using Adobe Acrobat, click on Add to PDF. Then the same process as described in 1.1 above is applied. Step 4. Close the PDF. Step 5. Click on “Headers” and “Footers” on your PDF file. These items are replaced by the standard Acrobat add to PDF menu. Then click on edit to display the options. Step 6. Add ‹› to ‹Headers” to show the headers in alphabetical order. Step 7. Delete the same ‹› before ‹Footers”. The document will show up in Word format. Convert a PDF to a Word document without headers by following the steps below: Step 1. Open the PDF in Google Docs (i.e. Evernote). Step 2. Open the PDF in the free program Preview. Step 3. You will see the PDF in Preview, click on the little ‹Edit› link near bottom right corner of Preview icon. Step 4. Select the ‹Remove› menu item under ‹Headers” > ‹Add to PDF. On the ‹Edit› window, make changes to the document to meet your needs. Note: If you have changed this way before the file will be saved automatically in its final format. Step 5. Choose your destination and save. Note: Save time by using your PC's free software to open and edit the PDF using Preview. Solved: PDF to Word: With PDF to Word from Google Docs, it does not seem that the headers and footers in both PDF to PDF and PDF to Word can be switched. However, Google Docs allows you to export the document without the headers/footers. Once you close and reopen the PDF, the headers and footers appear in the PDF as above with only a blank Page number. Solved: PDF to Word, PDF to PUB: It seems that both the PDF to PDF and PDF to PUB can be converted into PDF without the headers only, if there are no images on the PUB side, the headers will be skipped by the PUB application. How to Add an Image to the beginning of a PDF document (without adding any header or footer)? Note: This conversion works with PDF to Word.