Convert a PDF to Word
A .docx that opens in Word, LibreOffice or Google Docs, with real paragraphs rather than a stack of lines. The conversion happens inside your browser.
Free · 100% local — nothing is uploaded- 1Open your PDF.
- 2Run the conversion.
- 3Download the Word document.
How to convert a PDF to Word
Open the document, run the conversion, download a .docx that opens in Word, in LibreOffice, in Pages or in Google Docs. The conversion aims at structure rather than tracing: real paragraphs, headings recognized as headings, lists, tables, links and images in their place — so that the text can be reworked and recomposed instead of being frozen in a stack of boxes. Pixel fidelity is not promised, and that is deliberate: a PDF describes positions, a Word document describes a flow, and the converters that claim to get both give back files nobody can edit. Everything is computed inside your browser, with no account, no size limit imposed by a server, and without the document going anywhere. The PDF’s images end up in the Word document, in their place, and not as separate pieces.
A scanned PDF, and what gets lost
A scan must go through character recognition first, otherwise the .docx will hold nothing but an image. What most often gets lost from one format to the other: heavily worked columns, floating boxes, the hyphenation and fine spacing of a document set for print. If your need is to recover a table of figures, conversion to Excel gives a far better result; if it is to recover the text alone, extraction is enough.
Frequently asked questions
Is the layout preserved?
The text, its paragraphs, its headings, its lists, bold and italic, and the images. A PDF is not a word processor: a multi-column design will need touching up, whatever the converter.
Is my document sent to a server?
No. That is the main difference from the usual converters, which upload your file in order to process it.
What about a scanned PDF?
A scan has no text, so there is nothing to convert: run it through OCR first, then convert.
Will I be able to edit the text in Word?
Yes, that is the whole point: the paragraphs are real paragraphs, not frozen text boxes stacked on one another. That is exactly what separates a usable conversion from one that merely looks like the original.
Do the PDF’s images end up in the .docx?
Yes: images are extracted and placed back in the document, in their place in the flow of the text. What does not carry over is a layout in columns or in complex boxes — there, a touch-up in Word is still needed.