From PDF

Convert PDF to Word

Turn a text-based PDF into an editable Word (.docx) file, right in your browser. Your file is never uploaded — the conversion runs on your device. It works best for text documents; complex layouts and tables may not transfer perfectly, and scanned PDFs aren't supported.

Drop a file here
or click to choose · stays on your device

100% private — files are converted in your browser and never uploaded.

How it works

Convert PDF to Word in 3 steps

1

Choose your PDF

Drop a PDF — it loads locally, with no upload.

2

Convert to Word

The text, sizes and paragraphs are rebuilt into a .docx on your device.

3

Download

Open the .docx in Word, Google Docs, or Pages and edit away.

How the .docx is rebuilt

The converter walks the PDF's text layer, groups characters into visual lines and paragraphs, and writes a Word document with one paragraph per line. Font size is carried across, and bold or italic is inferred from the embedded font names, so headings and emphasis survive. Each PDF page becomes a page break in Word.

This is a reconstruction, not a round trip: the PDF does not store paragraphs, so a wrapped paragraph arrives as separate lines. The quickest fix in Word is to select the block and join the lines; the text itself is exact.

What does not carry over

Images, tables, headers and footers, columns and form fields are not reconstructed. Text inside a table lands as plain lines, and images are dropped. If the document is layout-heavy, expect to rebuild those parts by hand.

Scans cannot be converted at all: with no text layer there is nothing to place into the document, and the tool tells you so rather than handing back an empty file. OCR is not offered yet.

FAQ

Common questions

How good is the conversion?

It reconstructs the text, font sizes, and paragraph structure into an editable Word file, which is great for text-based documents like letters, resumes, and reports. Because it runs entirely in your browser (with no server), very complex multi-column layouts and tables may not line up exactly — review the result before sending.

My converted file came out empty — why?

The PDF is almost certainly a scan (an image of a page), which has no selectable text to convert. Reading text from an image needs OCR, which this tool doesn't do yet. PDFs created from real text (exported from Word, Google Docs, etc.) convert fine.

Are tables and images kept?

Text and basic formatting are kept. Images and complex tables aren't reliably reconstructed in this in-browser version — for those, the layout may differ from the original.

Are my files uploaded?

No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript — your file never leaves your device, so it's safe even for sensitive documents.

Is it free?

Yes — completely free, no signup, no watermark, and no daily limits.

Will the Word file look exactly like the PDF?

No. The text, sizes and bold/italic are preserved, but the PDF has no notion of paragraphs, tables or flowing layout, so the .docx is a clean text reconstruction rather than a visual copy.

Which apps open the result?

Any .docx reader: Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Apple Pages, LibreOffice. The file uses only standard paragraph and run formatting.