PDF to Word
Extract the text from a PDF into an editable Word (.docx) document.
How to use the PDF to Word
- Upload the PDF.
- Click Run to extract its text.
- Download the .docx file and edit it in Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice.
How the PDF to Word works
The converter reads the text embedded in each page, groups words into lines based on their position, and writes the lines in reading order into a new Word document, with a page break between each PDF page.
It's designed to give you editable text quickly, not a pixel-perfect copy: fonts, images, tables and exact layout aren't preserved. Scanned PDFs that contain only images of text need OCR, which this tool doesn't perform. To keep the original appearance, convert the pages to images with PDF to Images instead.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this PDF to Word converter free?
- Yes. Convert PDFs to Word at no cost, with no account required.
- Will the original layout be preserved?
- No. This is a text-reconstruction tool: it extracts each page's text in reading order into plain paragraphs. Original fonts, tables, images, and precise layout are not preserved - only editable text content.
- Will this work on a scanned PDF?
- No. This tool reads text that's already embedded in the PDF. Scanned image-only PDFs need OCR first, which isn't performed by this tool.