PDF to Word
Pull the text out of a PDF and get back a .docx you can edit, with the PDF's pictures carried over as well. The whole conversion happens in this tab, so the document never travels to a server — which is the reason it can be free and instant.
How to use it
- Drop your PDF onto the box above, or click it to pick a file. The number of pages is shown straight away.
- Set a page range if you only need part of it, and decide whether each PDF page should start a new page in Word.
- Press Convert to Word. The result downloads as a .docx, and a sample of the extracted text is shown so you can see what was read.
Why it stays private
The file is opened with pdf.js, a PDF reader compiled to run in the browser, and the text is rebuilt here. Nothing is transmitted: there is no upload step in the code at all. That matters for the documents people actually convert — contracts, invoices, medical letters, anything with a name and an address on it — because a copy on someone else's server is a copy you cannot delete.
Questions
Will the Word file look exactly like the PDF?
No, and no browser-based converter can promise that. What is rebuilt is the text, the paragraph breaks, headings, bullet and numbered lists, centred lines, and page breaks — and the pictures come across too, as blocks in reading order rather than pinned to the exact spot they occupied. Multi-column layouts, form fields, tables drawn with lines, and precise positioning on the page are not carried over. Reproducing those needs a full desktop layout engine, which is exactly the thing that has to run on a server — so this is the trade you make to keep the file private.
The report says a page held no text. What happened to that page?
That page is a picture of text — a scan, a phone photo, or a PDF exported from a scan — so there are no characters in it for a reader to pick up. It is not skipped: the page goes into the Word file as a picture, so nothing is missing from the document. What it cannot be is editable, because turning a picture into editable words needs OCR, which is far too heavy to run in a browser tab. A good trick is to open the PDF and drag the mouse across a sentence: if nothing highlights, that page has no text layer.
Is there a page limit or a file size limit?
None imposed by us, because nothing is sent to us — the ceiling is your own machine's memory. A few hundred pages is normally fine. One thing does stop it: a password-protected PDF, which must be unlocked first.