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PDF to Word converter

Turn a PDF into a Word document you can edit: paragraphs, headings, bullet lists, tables, links and pictures come out as real Word content. Scanned pages can be read with text recognition (OCR) in English, Hindi, Arabic, Urdu and more. Everything happens in your browser — the PDF is never uploaded.

  • Free
  • No sign-up
  • Private — runs in your browser

How do I convert a PDF to Word?

  1. 1Choose your PDF, or drag it onto the box. If it has a password, type it to open the file.
  2. 2Pick Editable Word (best for changing the text) or Exact look (each page as a picture).
  3. 3If the PDF is scanned, turn on text recognition and choose the language. Pick all pages or just the ones you need.
  4. 4Press Convert to Word, then download the .docx file and open it in Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice.

How does PDF to Word conversion work?

  1. 01Lines = letters on the same baseline; a wide gap splits columns and table cells
  2. 02Paragraph = lines with even spacing and indent, until a line stops short
  3. 03Heading = short line clearly bigger (or bolder) than the body text
  4. 04Table = crossing ruled lines, or text lined up in columns row after row
  5. 05Scanned page → OCR words with positions → the same steps

A PDF doesn't store paragraphs or tables — only "draw these letters at this spot". So the converter reads every letter with its position, size, font and colour (using Mozilla's pdf.js, the engine inside Firefox) and rebuilds the document the way you read it: letters on one baseline make a line, lines with the same spacing and indent make a paragraph, and a line that ends early ends its paragraph. Words broken with a hyphen at a line end are joined again.

Text clearly bigger or bolder than the body becomes a Word heading, so the Navigation pane and table of contents work. Lines starting with •, 1. or a) become list items. Two-column pages are read one column after the other. Right-to-left lines (Arabic, Urdu) are kept in reading order as right-to-left paragraphs.

Tables come from the lines drawn in the PDF: crossing lines make the grid, missing inner lines mean merged cells and coloured boxes become cell shading. Text lined up in columns without lines becomes a borderless table. Pictures and drawn charts are cut from the page at their own resolution and placed where they were. Links stay clickable, and page numbers and repeated headers are not copied onto every page.

Scanned pages are pictures with no text inside. With text recognition on, the open-source Tesseract OCR engine reads the words and their positions on your device, table lines in the scan are found and turned into Word tables, and photos or logos are kept as pictures. Exact look skips all of this and puts each page in as one picture, so it looks identical but can't be edited.

Good to know

  • Choose Editable Word to change the text; choose Exact look when the file only has to look right, such as a certificate or a form you will print.
  • For a scanned PDF, pick the language of the text before converting — OCR is much more accurate in the right language.
  • Long PDF? Convert only the pages you need, such as 3-7, to save time.
  • After converting, check tables and pages with complex layouts in Word; small fixes such as a column width are sometimes needed.

PDF to Word — common questions

Is my PDF uploaded to a server?

No. The PDF is opened and converted in your browser on your own device. Only when you use text recognition, the OCR program and its language file are downloaded from a public library server — your PDF is not sent anywhere.

Can I edit the Word file?

Yes. With Editable Word you get real text, headings, lists and tables in a normal .docx file that opens in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice and WPS Office. Exact look puts each page in as a picture, which looks identical but can't be edited.

Can it convert a scanned PDF to Word?

Yes. Turn on text recognition (OCR) and choose the language. Each scanned page is read on your device, its tables and pictures are kept, and the words become editable text. Clear scans at 300 DPI give the best results.

Does it keep tables and pictures?

Yes. Tables drawn with lines become real Word tables, including merged cells and shading, and text lined up in columns becomes a borderless table. Photos, logos and drawn charts are kept as pictures in their place.

Does it work with Urdu, Arabic and Hindi PDFs?

Yes. Right-to-left text such as Urdu and Arabic is kept in the right order in right-to-left paragraphs. For scanned pages, OCR supports Urdu, Arabic, Hindi, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Indonesian and German.

Why does my Word file look a little different from the PDF?

A PDF fixes every letter in place, while Word flows text and may use a different font if the PDF's font isn't on your computer. Lines can then wrap in other places. The content and structure stay the same, and small layout differences are easy to fix in Word.

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Formulas last reviewed: September 30, 2026 ·How we check our formulas

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