Will the formatting be preserved exactly?

No, and no converter can promise that honestly. A PDF stores glyph positions rather than document structure, so headings, tables and columns have to be inferred from coordinates. Text and paragraph flow come across well; complex layouts will need tidying.

Why is my scanned PDF coming out empty?

A scan is an image of a page, not text — there are no characters in the file to extract. You need optical character recognition to turn the picture back into words, which is a different process from what this tool does.

Can I convert a password-protected PDF?

Not while it is encrypted. The text cannot be read without the password, so remove the protection in whatever application created the file, then convert the unprotected copy.

Does the file get uploaded to a server?

No. The PDF is parsed in your browser with pdf.js and the Word document is assembled locally, so a confidential contract or report never leaves your device.

What format is the output?

A .docx file, which opens in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice and Pages. It is a real Word document rather than a renamed PDF, so the text is fully editable.

PDF to Word

Pull the text out of a PDF into an editable .docx document.

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About the PDF to Word

This extracts the text of a PDF and rebuilds it as a .docx you can edit. It is worth being clear about what that means: a PDF describes where marks sit on a page, not what those marks are structurally. There is nothing in the file that says 'this is a heading' or 'this is a table row' — that meaning was discarded when the PDF was made.

So the conversion recovers text, paragraph breaks and reading order well. It does not reliably recover multi-column layouts, complex tables, floated images or precise typography, because that information has to be inferred from coordinates rather than read. Expect a document you can edit, not a pixel-perfect replica of the original.

A scanned PDF has no text at all — only a photograph of text — so nothing can be extracted from it. Optical character recognition is a different problem and is not what this does.

How it works

Drop in the PDF you want to convert.
The text of every page is extracted in your browser and laid out into a Word document.
Download the .docx and edit it in Word, Pages or Google Docs.

Frequently asked questions

Will the formatting be preserved exactly?: No, and no converter can promise that honestly. A PDF stores glyph positions rather than document structure, so headings, tables and columns have to be inferred from coordinates. Text and paragraph flow come across well; complex layouts will need tidying.
Why is my scanned PDF coming out empty?: A scan is an image of a page, not text — there are no characters in the file to extract. You need optical character recognition to turn the picture back into words, which is a different process from what this tool does.
Can I convert a password-protected PDF?: Not while it is encrypted. The text cannot be read without the password, so remove the protection in whatever application created the file, then convert the unprotected copy.
Does the file get uploaded to a server?: No. The PDF is parsed in your browser with pdf.js and the Word document is assembled locally, so a confidential contract or report never leaves your device.
What format is the output?: A .docx file, which opens in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice and Pages. It is a real Word document rather than a renamed PDF, so the text is fully editable.

Privacy

Everything happens locally. Your files are read by your own browser, processed on your device, and never uploaded — closing the tab is all it takes to erase them.

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