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PDF to Word

To convert a PDF to Word, add the file, check the extracted text in the preview and download an editable .docx that opens in Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice. You get the text in reading order with page breaks; columns, tables and exact fonts are not rebuilt. Scanned PDFs need OCR instead. No sign-up, no upload.

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How to use PDF to Word

  1. 1Add the PDF you want to convert.
  2. 2Wait while each page is read — a progress bar shows how far along it is.
  3. 3Review the extracted text in the preview.
  4. 4Download the .docx file and open it in your word processor.

How it works

A PDF stores text as positioned glyphs rather than as paragraphs, so conversion means reconstructing the reading order. Each page's text items are read with their coordinates, grouped into lines by their vertical position, and joined into paragraphs where the spacing suggests a break. The result is written as a real Office Open XML document with page breaks between pages.

What you get is clean, editable body text with the page structure preserved. What you do not get is a pixel-perfect clone: multi-column layouts, tables, floating images and precise fonts are part of the PDF's visual layer, not its text layer, and rebuilding them reliably is not possible from text positions alone. For a text-heavy report or letter the output is very close to the original; for a magazine layout it will read as plain paragraphs.

If your PDF is a scan — a photograph of a page, with no text layer at all — nothing can be extracted. The tool detects this and points you to the OCR tool instead, which reads the words out of the image.

The file is read into your browser's memory, changed there, and handed straight back to you. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no queue and no copy sitting on a server afterwards.

Tips and common mistakes

  • Check that the PDF contains real text before converting: if you cannot select a sentence in it, it is a scan and needs OCR instead.
  • Delete running headers, footers and page numbers after converting. They are ordinary text on each page, so they arrive as stray lines at every page break.
  • Re-apply heading styles in your word processor. Headings come across as plain paragraphs, and styling them restores a working outline.
  • If only some pages come out empty, those pages are scanned. Run just those pages through OCR rather than the whole document.

Frequently asked questions

Will the Word file look exactly like the PDF?
No, and no converter can promise that honestly. You get the text, in reading order, with page breaks. Columns, tables and exact fonts are part of the PDF's visual layout and are not reconstructed.
My PDF is a scan and nothing came out. Why?
A scanned PDF contains an image of the page with no text layer, so there is nothing to extract. Use the Image to Text (OCR) tool, which recognises the words in the picture.
Which formats can open the result?
It is a standard .docx file. Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice Writer, Apple Pages and most mobile office apps all open it.
Do I need to sign up or give an email address?
No. There is no account, no email step and no watermark.
Are the pictures included in the Word file?
No. The converter extracts the text. To reuse the pictures, pull them out with Extract Images From PDF and place them in the document yourself.
Can I convert a password-protected PDF?
Only after the password has been removed, in the program that protected it. An encrypted PDF cannot be read without it.
Is there a page limit?
There is no fixed limit. Every page is read in turn on your own device, so long documents simply take longer, and a progress bar shows how far it has got.
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