PDF to Word
Get the text out of a PDF and into a Word document you can edit, without uploading the PDF anywhere.
Your file stays on your computer. There is no upload on this page — the conversion runs in your browser, so nothing reaches our server and there is nothing stored to delete. It works offline, and it works on a file you would not send to a stranger.
Choose a file above, then press Convert.
How to convert PDF to Word
- Choose the PDF, or drop it on the box above. The From and To menus are already set to PDF and Word.
- Press Convert. The text it found is shown on the page, so you can check it is the right document before you save anything.
- Press Download, then open the .docx in Word, LibreOffice, Pages or Google Docs.
What you get back
A PDF does not contain paragraphs. It contains instructions to put particular letters at particular coordinates on a page - which is why text copied out of one so often arrives as a jumble with the line breaks in the wrong places.
This page reads those positions back. Lines are rebuilt from the letters that sit on them, paragraphs from the lines that ran all the way to the margin, headings from where the type got bigger, and list items from the marks in front of them.
- You get: the words in the right order as editable paragraphs, headings as real Word headings, bulleted lists as real lists, and accents and punctuation intact.
- You do not get: the original fonts, the page layout, columns, images, or tables as tables - a table comes back as its rows of text.
A scanned PDF has no text in it
If the PDF came from a scanner or a phone camera, every page in it is a photograph. There are no letters in the file to recover, only a picture of letters. Getting words out of a picture is optical character recognition, which is a different job and not one this page does - so it says so plainly rather than handing you an empty document and letting you wonder.
The ten-second way to tell: open the PDF and try to select a line of text with your mouse. If nothing highlights, it is a scan.
What happens to your PDF
Most PDF-to-Word sites work by sending your file to a server, converting it there and letting you download the result - which means a stranger’s computer has held a copy of your document, whatever was in it.
This one does not. There is no form on the page and no request: the PDF is read, taken apart and rebuilt as a .docx entirely inside this browser tab. Disconnect the network and it still works.
Questions people ask
Is this free?
Yes. No sign-up, no page limit, no watermark and no trial.
Can I edit the Word file afterwards?
Yes - that is the point of converting. It is an ordinary .docx with real paragraphs and real headings, so Word, LibreOffice, Pages and Google Docs all open and edit it normally.
Why does my table come out as plain lines of text?
Because in the PDF it already is plain lines of text. A table in a PDF is usually just words placed in columns with lines drawn around them; nothing in the file says "this is a table". The words come across in the right order, but the grid does not.
It says there is no text in my PDF.
Then it is a scan - a photograph of a page rather than a document. Try selecting text in the PDF with your mouse: if nothing highlights, there is nothing to recover without character recognition.
Is my PDF uploaded?
No. It is read and converted inside your browser, and no part of it is sent anywhere. The page works offline, which is the simplest proof.
Which versions of Word open the file?
Any from 2007 onwards, and LibreOffice, Pages and Google Docs as well. It is a standard .docx, not a special format.