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PDF to Word

Turn a PDF back into text you can edit.

Everything is processed on your device. Nothing you upload or type is sent to a server, and nothing is stored.

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A PDF does not actually contain paragraphs. It contains letters placed at coordinates, and every structural fact you can see — where a line ends, where a paragraph begins, which line is a heading — was discarded when the file was made. This tool reads that text layer back and rebuilds the structure from the geometry: baselines, gaps, indents and font sizes. You get a Word document whose words are exactly right and whose headings, lists and emphasis are preserved, laid out to reflow as you type rather than to imitate the original page.

How to use pdf to word

  1. Upload your PDF

    Drag a PDF into the box above or click to pick one from your device.

  2. Convert

    The text layer is read page by page and grouped back into paragraphs, headings and lists. Everything happens on your device.

  3. Download the Word file

    You get a .docx that opens in Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice and Pages.

Frequently asked questions

Will the Word document look exactly like the PDF?

No, and it is worth understanding why. A PDF is a fixed page — everything is nailed to a coordinate. A Word document is a flowing one, where text moves as you edit. Converting between them means choosing which to keep, and this tool keeps the editing. Your words, headings, lists, bold and italic all come through; the exact line and page breaks will differ. If you need the layout preserved exactly, you want the PDF itself, not a Word copy of it.

My PDF is a scan and the conversion did not work. Why?

A scanned PDF has no text in it. Each page is a photograph of a page, so there is nothing to extract — which is why the tool tells you rather than handing you an empty document. Getting text out of a scan needs optical character recognition (OCR), which reads letter shapes out of the image. This tool does not do OCR.

Does it handle two-column layouts?

Yes. Academic papers and reports in two columns are detected and unwrapped into a single reading order, which is what you want for editing. Without that, the text would read as alternating half-sentences from the left and right columns. You will see a note on the result when this has happened, so you can check the sections follow on correctly.

What about tables and images?

Text inside a table comes through as text, but not as a table — a PDF gives no reliable signal about where cell boundaries are, and guessing produces confidently wrong grids. Images are not carried over either. The tool is built around getting the text right rather than approximating everything badly.

Can I open the result in Google Docs or Pages?

Yes. The file is a standard .docx, which Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice Writer, Pages and every other modern word processor opens directly.

Is my file uploaded anywhere?

No. The PDF is read and converted entirely inside your browser, and it disappears from memory as soon as you close or reload the page. Nothing is sent to a server, which is worth knowing if the document is a contract, a payslip or anything else you would rather not hand to a website.

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