PDF to Word

About PDF to Word

PDF to Word extracts all selectable text from a PDF and packages it into a Microsoft Word .docx file — entirely inside your browser, with nothing uploaded to a server. The tool reads the text layer of each page using PDF.js, then assembles a plain Word document you can open in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice, or any other word processor. It is ideal when you receive a text-based PDF — a contract, a report draft, a job listing — and need to copy large sections into another document, edit the wording, or reformat the layout. Note that the tool extracts text content faithfully but does not replicate complex multi-column layouts or inline images, so it works best on single-column, text-heavy PDFs. Because all processing happens on your device, your documents stay completely private.

Why use PDF to Word

How to use PDF to Word

1. Click the upload area or drag a PDF onto the PDF to Word panel.
2. The browser reads the text layer of each page — no server connection is made at any point.
3. Watch the progress indicator as pages are processed one by one.
4. Review the character count or page count shown when extraction completes.
5. Click Download .docx to save the Word document to your device.
6. Open the file in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice to edit.

When to use PDF to Word

• When a client sends a contract as a PDF and you need to redline specific clauses in Word.
• When a government form or policy document is only available as PDF and you need to reformat or quote sections.
• When you want to repurpose a PDF report by pulling its text into a new presentation or article.
• When students need to copy and annotate large sections of a course reading saved as a PDF.
• When translating a document and the translator needs editable text rather than images of pages.
• When a recruiter needs to extract and reformat candidate CV text from a PDF submission.

Examples

Tips

• For best results, use this tool on PDFs that were originally created from a word processor or design app rather than scanned documents.
• After downloading the .docx, use Find & Replace in Word to clean up any hyphenation artefacts from the PDF's line-break encoding.
• If you only need text from specific pages, split the PDF first to isolate those pages before converting.
• For scanned PDFs, consider an OCR tool to add a text layer before attempting extraction.
• The extracted text retains reading order as the PDF defines it — for complex layouts, expect to do some manual reordering in Word.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Glossary

Text Layer

The embedded, selectable text content in a PDF, as opposed to a scanned image; this tool extracts content from the text layer only.

OCR

Optical Character Recognition — technology that reads text from scanned images; needed for PDFs that have no embedded text layer.

.docx

The Open XML file format for Microsoft Word documents, introduced in Office 2007 and supported by all major word processors.

PDF.js

Mozilla's open-source library for rendering and parsing PDF files in the browser, used by this tool to extract text without a server.

Reflow

The process of re-wrapping extracted text to fit a new page or column width, typically applied automatically by word processors on import.

Page Break

A formatting mark in a Word document that forces the following content to start on a new page; the tool inserts these between extracted PDF pages.