A PDF you can edit in Word.

Convert a PDF to Word in your browser, with nothing uploaded: headings, bold, colours, tables and pictures kept. What Word changes, and OCR for scans.

By Suraj Kumar1 November 20263 min read

A PDF page turning into a Word file, an Excel sheet, a picture and plain text, all on one device

To change a PDF's words in Word, the words have to become paragraphs again. The converter rebuilds them from the page, with their looks, and Word does the rest.

Add the PDF, press Make the Word file.

Open PDF to Word, add the PDF, choose all pages or some, and press Make the Word file. The result says what it became, such as 12 pages became a Word file with 3 tables and 8 pictures, and Download gives the .docx.

Open PDF to Word

What is kept.

Paragraphs, with a word broken at a line's end joined again. Headings, from letters clearly larger than the body's, or from a tagged PDF's own headings. Each run's font (named as Word knows it: Helvetica becomes Arial), size, bold, italic and colour. Tables cell by cell, pictures at the size they are shown, and each page's size and margins.

The layout may differ.

A PDF places every letter; a Word file says what the words are and lets Word place them. Word uses its own fonts and spacing, so lines, and so pages, can break in other places. Turn on Start each PDF page on a new page under More options to keep the PDF's pages apart.

A scanned page has no words, only a picture of them: turn on Read scanned pages (OCR) and they are read on your device and put in as paragraphs.

Your file never leaves your device.

The PDF or Word file is read and the result is written in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and nothing is kept when you leave.

Read what the site keeps

A little less theory. A little more doing.

Try it on your own terms, with a free browser tool.

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