Convert PDF to Word
A PDF is a picture of a finished document; a Word file is one you can still edit. This reads the text off each page, rebuilds the paragraphs, headings and line breaks, and writes a .docx you can open in Word, Google Docs or Pages. It is honest about its limits: plain documents come through well, complicated layouts less so.
Starting the converter…
How it works
- Choose the PDF you want to edit.
- Nothing to set: the words and their paragraphs are what comes out.
- Make the Word file, open it, and carry on writing.
Questions
How close will the Word file be to the original?
For letters, essays, notices and other single-column documents, close: the paragraphs, headings and text sizes carry over and you can start editing at once. Tables come out as lines of text, side-by-side columns get interleaved, and pictures are not carried across. Expect to tidy a complex layout rather than have it perfect.
It says my PDF has no text in it. Why?
Because it is a scan: the pages are photographs of paper, and there are no actual letters in the file for this tool to read. Making words out of a picture needs text recognition, which is a different job, so rather than hand you an empty document it says so.
Is the PDF sent to a server to be converted?
No. The words are read out of the file and the Word document is written entirely inside this page, on your device. Nothing about the document leaves it, which matters when it is a contract or a medical report.
PDF → Word