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Choose the PDF
Its first page shows, with the number of pages.
Free tool
PDF to Word, text you can edit.
Get the words out of a PDF and into a .docx you can edit in Word, Pages or Google Docs: paragraphs, headings, bold and italic, pictures, and scanned pages read with OCR. Or keep the exact look with each page as a picture. It runs in your browser, so the PDF is never uploaded. No sign-up, no watermark.
This runs in your browser. Your files are never uploaded.
How it works
Three steps, nothing to install.
02 / Convert
Pick what to keep
Editable text for changing the words, exact look for keeping the layout.
03 / Edit
Download and edit
Open the .docx in Word, Pages or Google Docs.
Questions
Good to know.
Is my PDF uploaded?
No. It is read and the Word file is written in this tab, so it never leaves your computer. That matters for contracts, statements and anything private.
What comes across?
The text in reading order, split into paragraphs, with headings, bold and italic, the font and size, centred and justified paragraphs, indents and the pictures at their place. Two-column pages are read left column first.
What does not?
A PDF stores where each word sits, not the document it came from, so some things have to be guessed. Tables come out as text with tabs between the cells, text boxes and side notes join the main text, and colours, underlines and links are not kept. For a copy that looks exactly like the PDF, pick Exact look; for the original layout, ask whoever made the PDF for the Word file.
Can it convert a scanned PDF?
Yes. A page with no text in it is read with OCR (Tesseract) in the language you pick. Clear, straight scans read best; check names and numbers afterwards. The text reader (about 4 MB) and the language (1 to 3 MB) load the first time.
Will it open in Google Docs and Pages?
Yes. It is a standard .docx. In Google Docs, upload it to Drive and open it with Google Docs.
Does it work with a password-protected PDF?
A PDF that needs a password to open cannot be read here. Open it, save a copy without the password, then convert that copy.