How to use the PDF to Word
- Drop your PDF.
- Wait while the text is extracted page by page — scanned pages are read with OCR if that option is on.
- Check the preview, edit it if you like, and download the Word document or plain text.
What gets converted
The converter reads the text layer of each page with pdf.js and rebuilds the document structure: words are joined into lines, lines into paragraphs, words broken with a hyphen at a line end are rejoined, and larger text becomes headings (Heading 1 and 2 in Word, so the navigation pane and table of contents work). The result is a clean, editable .docx that opens in Word, Google Docs, Pages and LibreOffice.
What it doesn’t keep
To keep the document editable rather than a fragile copy of the page, exact positions, columns, images, tables and fonts are not reproduced. For contracts, reports, articles and letters that’s usually what you want — the words and their structure. If you need a pixel-perfect copy with images and tables, a desktop tool such as Word’s own PDF import is the better choice.
Scanned PDFs
A scanned PDF is just pictures of pages with no text inside. With OCR on, pages without text are rendered and read with the Tesseract OCR engine in your browser. That takes a few seconds per page; choose the document’s language for accurate results.
Private by design
Your PDF is processed entirely on your device. It is never uploaded, so confidential documents — contracts, payslips, medical letters — stay with you.
Tools that pair well with the PDF to Word
- Image to Text (OCR) — Drop a screenshot, a photo of a document or a scanned page and get the text out — editable, copyable and searchable.
- Merge PDF — Combine several PDF files into one document.
- PDF to JPG — Turn every page of a PDF into a high-quality JPG or PNG image — for slides, social posts, thumbnails or apps that do not accept PDF.
- Compress PDF — Shrink PDFs for email, upload forms and websites.