Turn a PDF into a Word document to correct its text, update a figure or reuse a table without typing it all again. You get a .docx file with real paragraphs, tables and images, not pictures of the pages, which opens in Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice or Pages. No sign-up and no watermarks.
How to convert PDF to Word
- Select your PDF files (up to 3 at once).
- Click “Convert to Word” and wait a few seconds while we rebuild each page.
- Download the DOCX file or, if you converted several PDFs, the ZIP with one for each.
How the PDF becomes editable
A PDF doesn’t store paragraphs or tables, only where each word, line and image goes on the page. To give you a Word document, we work out from those positions which lines form a paragraph, which ones are a table and where the images go, and we write them as Word paragraphs, tables and pictures, with their fonts, sizes, bold and italics.
- Text you can correct, rewrite and copy.
- Tables become real Word tables: you can add rows or change a number.
- Images keep their place on the page.
- Links can still be clicked.
- Columns are kept as columns.
What changes compared to the PDF
The result is very close to the PDF, but a Word document is built differently, so some things arrive in another form:
- Headers and footers become normal text at the top and bottom of each page.
- Bulleted and numbered lists arrive as paragraphs with their bullet or number, not as Word lists.
- Headings look the same but don’t use Word’s heading styles, so an automatic table of contents won’t pick them up.
- Pages with a complex layout (forms, overlapping text boxes, text on top of images) may need some adjusting.
Scanned PDFs
If the PDF comes from a scanner or from photos, its pages are images and have no text to extract. We check this before converting: if a PDF has no text at all, we tell you instead of giving you a Word document with a picture of each page. Turning those images into text needs text recognition (OCR), which we don’t offer.
Limitations
- Up to 3 PDFs at once, 50 MB each, 100 MB in total and 100 pages per PDF.
- PDFs protected with a password can’t be converted: open them in your PDF reader and save a copy without the password first.
Frequently asked questions
Can I edit the text after converting the PDF to Word?
Yes. The text arrives as normal Word paragraphs, with its font, size, bold and italics, so you can correct it, add to it or copy it like in any other document. Tables can be edited cell by cell.
Why does it say my PDF has no text?
Because its pages are images: it was scanned or made from photos. There is no text inside to turn into Word, only pictures of letters. That needs text recognition (OCR), which we don’t offer.
Will the Word document look exactly like the PDF?
Very similar: same text, tables, images and columns, page by page. Headers and footers become normal text, lists keep their bullets as text, and complex layouts such as forms may need adjusting.
Can I convert a password-protected PDF?
No. Open it with the password in your PDF reader, save or print a copy without protection, and convert that copy.
Which programs open the file I download?
It is a .docx file, the standard Word format: it opens in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice Writer, Apple Pages and the Word app for phones.