PDF to Word
Turn a PDF into an editable Word document. Text, reading order, headings and bullet lists carry across into a real .docx you can open and edit — no upload, no watermark, no sign-up.
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Uses text size, which is how a PDF stores headings. Turn it off for documents that use large text for emphasis.
Logos, charts and photographs are placed in reading order alongside the text. Turning this off makes the document considerably smaller.
- ProcessingOn your device
- Uploaded to a serverNothing
- InternetNot needed
Don't take our word for it. Turn off your Wi‑Fi, then use this tool. It will work exactly the same, which is only possible because your file never goes anywhere.
Worth knowing
This carries the content across, not the layout. Headings, paragraph order, bullet lists and images survive; multi-column layouts and precise positioning do not. Word opens the result as an ordinary flowing document, which is what you want if the goal is editing the words — and is not a substitute for the original if the goal is reproducing the design.
Images are placed in reading order, at the size they were drawn, and anything wider than the page is scaled to fit. A logo sitting beside a paragraph in the PDF will arrive above it instead, because a flowing document has no way to hold it there.
A logo that was cut out with a transparent background usually arrives with that background filled in — white in most files. The transparency is held separately from the picture in a PDF, and the picture is what can be recovered here.
A scanned PDF has no text in it, only a picture of text, so there is nothing to convert. Run it through Searchable PDF first to add a text layer.
Questions people ask
Do the images come across?
Yes. Logos, charts and photographs are extracted and placed in reading order, at roughly the size they were drawn. Two things do not survive. Their exact position: Word reflows the document, so an image that sat beside a paragraph arrives above it. And a transparent background: a PDF keeps that in a separate mask from the picture itself, so a cut-out logo usually arrives on white. If you would rather have a smaller, text-only file, there is a setting to turn images off.
Will the Word file look exactly like the PDF?
No, and nothing that runs in a browser can promise that. A faithful layout conversion needs a full page-layout engine — LibreOffice or Word itself — running on a server. What you get here is every word, in the right order, with headings and lists intact, as a document Word will happily reflow and let you edit. For most people that is the actual goal.
Why is my converted file empty?
Almost certainly because the PDF is a scan. Open it and try to select a sentence with your mouse: if you cannot highlight it, there is no text in the file, only an image of text. Convert it with Searchable PDF first to add a real text layer, then run it through here.
Are images included?
Not currently. The conversion carries text and structure. If you need the pictures, run the PDF through PDF to JPG separately and place the images yourself — being upfront about that is better than handing you a document with images silently missing.
Does my document get uploaded?
No. The PDF is read and the Word file is written entirely inside your browser. Nothing is transmitted, which is why this works with your network switched off.
Can I convert several PDFs at once?
One at a time. Batch conversion is on the list, but each document takes real processing in your own browser, so running them together would slow the whole tab rather than speed anything up.
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