A LITTLE LESS PAPERWORK

PDF to Word

Make your words editable again. Extract text into a DOCX.

Private by design

Your inputs stay on your device and are not sent to our servers. Optional usage analytics does not receive your files or tool inputs.

A fresh start for your files

Drop PDFs here, or choose from your device.

30 MB per file · 80 MB total · One PDF at a time

For text-based PDFs. Basic paragraphs and simple aligned tables become editable. Review cell order; merged cells, complex tables, images, and exact layout need manual editing. Scanned pages need Image to Word OCR.

How to use PDF to Word

Recover editable words from a text-based PDF as a DOCX document. The tool uses line endings and text positions to build basic paragraphs. It is intended as an editing starting point, not a page-design or exact-layout converter.

Choose one PDF. A document with selectable text is more likely to work than an image-only scan.
Select Convert to Word. The tool extracts available text and writes a DOCX file.
Download the Word document and compare it with the PDF, checking reading order, special characters, headings, and missing text.

A practical example

A straightforward letter may produce useful editable paragraphs. A two-column brochure or table may become lines of text that need substantial manual rearrangement.

Before you share the result

Scanned or image-only PDFs need OCR. Export the page to an image and use Image to Word. No-text PDFs display an explanatory error.
Simple aligned tables become editable cells. Fonts, pictures, merged cells, complex columns, headers, and exact spacing are not reproduced.
Keep the PDF as a reference and review names, dates, and numbers before relying on converted text.

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Useful things to know

What are the file limits?

Up to 30 files, 30 MB per file, 80 MB combined, and 1,000 PDF pages per result. Mobile devices may run out of memory sooner. Try smaller batches if processing fails.

What should I expect from this tool?

Text-based PDFs become editable paragraphs in a DOCX. Simple aligned tables become editable cells. Fonts, complex columns, merged cells, images, and exact layout are not preserved. Scanned PDFs need Image to Word OCR.