PDF to Word
Get the text of a PDF as an editable Word document.
- Runs on your device — the file is never sent anywhere
- No sign-up, no watermarks, no daily quotas
- Free, with no limit on how often you use it
How it works
People want a PDF in Word for one of two reasons: to edit the words, or to reuse the layout. This does the first well and does not attempt the second, which is the honest split — reconstructing a PDF's layout as a Word layout is something no converter manages reliably, including the paid ones.
What you get
The text of every page as ordinary Word paragraphs, editable immediately. Lines are joined back into paragraphs where the text clearly continues, or kept separate if you prefer. A page break can be inserted between pages so the structure stays recognisable.
What you do not get
Fonts, columns, images, tables, headers, footers and positioning. A PDF describes where marks sit on a page; a Word document describes a flowing document. Converting between those models is guesswork, and a converter that produces a page full of text boxes to fake the layout gives you something nearly impossible to edit — which defeats the purpose.
Scanned PDFs
A scan contains pictures of text, not text, so there is nothing to extract and you will be told so. Run it through the scanned PDF to text tool first, which reads the pages with OCR.
Why this runs locally
The documents people convert to Word are contracts, applications and reports. This one is read and rewritten in the page, so it is never transmitted.
PDF to Word — questions
Will the Word document look like the PDF?
No. You get the text as editable paragraphs. Fonts, columns, images and tables are not reproduced.
Why not reproduce the layout?
Doing it with text boxes produces a document that is nearly impossible to edit, which defeats the point of converting to Word.
It says there is no text — why?
The PDF is a scan, so its pages are images. Use the scanned PDF to text tool first.
Is my document uploaded?
No. It is converted in your browser.