About PDF to Word
A PDF stores text as positioned runs on a canvas, not as paragraphs and headings, which is why PDF-to-Word converters have to guess the structure back. This tool reads the text layer with pdf.js, groups the runs into lines, merges naturally spaced lines into paragraphs and promotes clearly larger text to heading styles. Headings and paragraphs are approximate but editable, which is what most people actually need when they want to quote, correct or reuse a document.
The conversion is text-focused by design. Images, decorative layouts, background graphics and precise table borders are not recreated; a table generally arrives as a series of text lines. That makes the result ideal for editing contracts, turning reports into notes or pulling research into a draft, and a poor fit for reproducing a designed brochure. Scanned pages contain pictures of text rather than text itself, so they need an OCR pass before this tool can help.
What this tool does
Editable .docx output
Download a real Word document that opens in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Pages and LibreOffice — not a picture of a page.
Paragraph and heading detection
Positioned text runs are grouped into paragraphs, and lines set in noticeably larger type become Heading 1 or Heading 2 styles.
Page range control
Convert the whole PDF or only the pages you need, then add page breaks between PDF pages so the Word file stays navigable.
Text preview before download
See exactly which characters were extracted, along with a character, word and heading count, before you commit to the file.
Honest scanned-PDF handling
If a page has no text layer, the tool says so and skips it instead of producing an empty document.
No upload, no queue
The PDF is read by the tab you are looking at, so the conversion starts instantly and works offline once the page is loaded.
How to use PDF to Word
- 01
Add the PDF
Drop the file onto the workspace or click Choose file. The page count is read locally and shown before you convert.
- 02
Pick the pages
Leave the page field empty to convert everything, or type a range such as 1-3, 5 to convert only those pages.
- 03
Choose page breaks
Keep the checkbox on if each PDF page should start on a fresh Word page, or turn it off for one continuous document.
- 04
Convert and review
Click Convert to Word, then read the preview and the character and heading counts to check the extraction looks right.
- 05
Download and polish
Download the .docx and open it in your word processor. Fix any layout details there — the file is fully editable.
Supported formats and limits
- Input
- Output
- DOCX
- Processing
- Client-side, in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
- Maximum size
- Up to 50 MB · 100 pages
- Requirements
- Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari on desktop or mobile · No account, installation or upload required
Limitations worth knowing
- No OCR: scanned or image-only PDFs produce no text, because the tool can only read a PDF's text layer.
- Layout is simplified. Images, text boxes, columns, footnotes and table borders are not recreated; headings and paragraphs are approximate.
- Up to 100 pages and 50 MB per conversion. Larger documents should be split first.
- Password-protected or damaged PDFs cannot be opened at all.
Privacy and file handling
The PDF is read, converted and packed into a .docx entirely inside your browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, stored or logged on a server, and the Word file is created on your own device. Closing the tab discards the file and the extracted text.
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