This tool reads the text out of a PDF and writes it into a Word (.docx) document you can edit, reflow and restyle. The result is a real Office Open XML file — Word, LibreOffice, Pages and Google Docs all open it as an ordinary document, not as an imported picture of one.
It is worth understanding what a PDF actually contains, because it explains what can and cannot come across. A PDF does not store paragraphs, headings or tables. It stores glyphs at coordinates — instructions for painting marks on a fixed-size page. There is no structure in the file to read, so paragraph boundaries have to be inferred from the spacing between lines. That inference is good enough for prose and reports, and it is unreliable for anything whose meaning depends on position.
In practice that means the text and its reading order come through, and the design does not. Images, tables, multi-column layouts, headers and footers, and exact positioning are lost. If you need the original appearance preserved exactly, a PDF editor is the right tool; if you need the words back in a form you can edit, this is.
How to use it
Drop a PDF onto the upload area, or click it to browse. Files up to 25MB are accepted.
Check the filename and size shown, and remove the file if you picked the wrong one.
Press Convert to Word. Progress is reported page by page — long documents take a few seconds.
Download the .docx, or convert another file.
Frequently asked questions
Is my PDF uploaded to a server?
No. The conversion runs entirely in this browser tab using JavaScript — the file is read from your device and never sent anywhere. That is why the page carries the “Runs in your browser” badge, and it is why there is nothing to delete afterwards: closing the tab is enough.
Why does my Word document lose the original layout?
Because the layout is not in the PDF in a form that can be recovered. A PDF places glyphs at fixed coordinates rather than describing paragraphs, columns or tables, so a converter has to guess structure from spacing. This tool reconstructs paragraphs and reading order faithfully and does not attempt to fake the visual design. Tools that do reproduce layout closely run a full office suite server-side, which is a different trade-off — your file has to be uploaded to their servers.
Nothing was extracted from my PDF. Why?
Almost certainly because it is a scan. A scanned document is a set of page images with no text layer, so there are no characters to extract — what looks like text to you is a picture to the file. Reading it requires OCR, which this tool does not do. You can check quickly: if you cannot select the text in a PDF viewer, neither can this converter.
Can it convert password-protected PDFs?
No. An encrypted PDF cannot be read without its password, and this tool does not prompt for one. Open the file in a PDF reader, save an unprotected copy, and convert that.
Are tables and images converted?
No. Images are not carried into the .docx at all, and a table's cells arrive as ordinary text in reading order rather than as a Word table — the row and column structure is not present in the PDF to recover. For a document that is mostly tabular, expect to rebuild the table.
Is there a file size limit?
25MB. The whole file is held in memory in your tab while it is parsed, and beyond roughly that size a phone or a modest laptop risks the tab being killed mid-conversion — which looks like a crash. The limit is there so the failure is a clear message instead.