PDF to Word
Turn a PDF into an editable Word document, with the layout and tables intact.
or drop them here · nothing leaves your device
- Runs on your device
- No sign-up or watermark
- No file size cap
How to pdf to word
- STEP 1
Choose your PDF
Drag it onto the page or pick it from your device. It is never uploaded.
- STEP 2
Turn on OCR if it is a scan
A PDF with no text layer is a picture of a document. OCR recovers the words first so the .docx contains real, editable text.
- STEP 3
Download the .docx
Opens in Word, Pages, LibreOffice or Google Docs.
What survives, and what does not
Most free converters flatten a PDF into a wall of floating text boxes that fall apart the moment you edit a sentence. Doing this properly means reconstructing the document model first — grouping glyphs back into runs, runs into paragraphs, and ruling lines into real table cells — before writing an Office Open XML file.
Editable paragraphs and headings
Real Word tables, not images of tables
Images at their original resolution
Embedded fonts mapped to system equivalents
Interactive form fields become static text
Digital signatures are not carried over
Heavily designed magazine layouts need cleanup
Honest limits are published on every tool page. If a tool cannot do something well, it says so here rather than letting you find out after the download.
PDF to Word questions
Can I convert a scanned PDF to an editable Word file?
That needs OCR — text recognition — to recover words from the page images first. On-device OCR is the piece still being built; until it lands, this tool works on PDFs that already contain a text layer.
Will the formatting change?
Text-based PDFs usually come across near-identical. Heavily designed documents — magazine layouts, multi-column reports with floating callouts — will need light cleanup in Word.
Is there a page limit?
No page limit and no daily cap. Because the document is never uploaded, the only ceiling is how much memory your browser tab has — which on a desktop is far above the 10 or 20 page limits free converters typically impose.
Why is this conversion harder than the others?
A PDF describes where marks sit on a page; a Word file describes a document’s structure. Going backwards means inferring structure that was thrown away, and doing that well in a browser is genuinely difficult. We would rather ship it late than ship it mangling your contracts.