PDF to Word
Convert a PDF into an editable Word document online for free. Extracts text from every page into a .docx file you can edit, private, no uploads.
About This Tool
Get the text of a PDF into Word without retyping it. Every page is read and written into a .docx file you can edit in Word, Google Docs or Pages, with a page break between pages. This is a text conversion: paragraphs, lines and reading order are preserved, but the original page layout, columns and images are not rebuilt. Runs entirely in your browser.
How To Use
- Drop your PDF into the upload zone or click to select it.
- Click "Convert to Word".
- Download the .docx file and open it in any word processor.
How It Works
A PDF does not store paragraphs, it stores glyphs with coordinates. The converter asks pdf.js for every text item on a page along with its position, then reconstructs the reading order: a large jump down the page starts a new line, and a horizontal gap between items becomes a space.
Those lines are written into a real Office Open XML document using the docx library, with a page break at the end of each PDF page so the structure of the original stays recognisable.
Because the rebuild is based on text positions, what you get is clean, editable text rather than a pixel-perfect copy. Multi-column layouts, tables and images do not survive the trip. If the PDF is a scan with no text layer at all, the tool will tell you and point you at the PDF OCR tool instead.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will my formatting be preserved?
Text, line breaks and page breaks are preserved. Fonts, colours, columns, tables and images are not, this is a text extraction, not a layout clone. True layout conversion needs a server-side Office engine.
What happens with a scanned PDF?
A scan has no text layer, so nothing can be extracted. The tool detects this and tells you to run PDF OCR instead.
Which file format do I get?
A .docx file, which opens in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice and Pages.
Are tables converted?
Table text comes through, but not as a Word table, the cells arrive as ordinary lines of text.
Is my file uploaded?
No. The PDF is parsed and the Word file is built inside your browser. Nothing is sent to a server.