Will the Word file look exactly like my PDF?

No. Only headings, bold and italic emphasis, bullet lists and images are rebuilt, and they flow as one column in default Word styling. Fonts, colors, tables, columns and page breaks are not carried over, so plan a short formatting pass.

Why is my scanned PDF not turning into editable text?

A scan is a picture of text, and this converter reads only the text layer, so it has nothing to rebuild. OCR PDF extracts text from scans as a .txt file, which you can paste into a blank Word document.

Does the Word file keep my page breaks?

No. Pages are marked with a label while the text is being analysed, but those labels are skipped when the document is written and no page breaks are added. The pages run together as one continuous document.

Is my PDF uploaded when I convert it to Word?

No. The PDF is read and the .docx is built inside your browser tab, so the file is not sent to a server. The only step that involves an account is saving the finished file.

PDF to Word

Convert PDF to editable Word document.

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About PDF to Word

A PDF stores positioned glyphs, so there is no real heading or paragraph to copy into a document. This converter reads the text layer page by page and rebuilds structure from it: larger type becomes Heading 1, 2 or 3, bold and italic runs keep their emphasis, bullet glyphs turn into list items, and embedded pictures are placed in reading order. What you get is a .docx draft to edit in Word, not a copy of the page layout.

Features

Heading 1 to 3 inferred from each line's size relative to the body text
Bold and italic read from the PDF's own font flags
Bullet lists and embedded images carried into the document
Falls back to plain paragraphs for a page it cannot analyse, so one bad page does not blank the rest
Conversion happens in the browser with no server upload

Limitations

The uploader accepts PDFs up to 50 MB.
Tables and multi-column text are not detected, and headers or footers come through as ordinary paragraphs, so expect to tidy the layout in Word.
There is no OCR here: a scanned PDF without a text layer will not give you editable text. OCR PDF can pull the text out of a scan as a .txt file instead.
Downloading the .docx needs a free account.

How it works

Drop a PDF onto the upload area, or browse for it.
Wait while the pages are read. Conversion starts as soon as the file is chosen, and the file name, size and page count appear above.
Select Download DOCX when the button appears.
Open the file in Word and check the headings, lists and images against the original.

Frequently asked questions

: No. Only headings, bold and italic emphasis, bullet lists and images are rebuilt, and they flow as one column in default Word styling. Fonts, colors, tables, columns and page breaks are not carried over, so plan a short formatting pass.
: A scan is a picture of text, and this converter reads only the text layer, so it has nothing to rebuild. OCR PDF extracts text from scans as a .txt file, which you can paste into a blank Word document.
: No. Pages are marked with a label while the text is being analysed, but those labels are skipped when the document is written and no page breaks are added. The pages run together as one continuous document.
: No. The PDF is read and the .docx is built inside your browser tab, so the file is not sent to a server. The only step that involves an account is saving the finished file.