And I wouldn't bother trying to transfer from a pdf. It only transfers very basic info like your name and address and AGI, nothing else. So you would still have to enter everything manually. You need the data file ending in .tax2020 to transfer. You don't have any backups? How do you have the pdf files and not the .tax2020 files? The files should have been in your Documents in a Turbo Tax folder.
If you don't have the main .tax file you might have one that starts with a Tilde sign ~ like "~your name.tax2020". That file is if your computer crashes or your real file gets lost or deleted or corrupt so you can restore it.
