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PDF to Word

Pull the text out of a PDF and download it as an editable Word document you can open in Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice.

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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.

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.

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