PDF to Word
Turn a PDF’s text into an editable Word document, with headings, paragraphs and lists. The layout is simplified. No upload, no signup, no watermark.
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An editable copy of the words, not the design
The usual reason to turn a PDF into Word is to edit the words: update an old report, reuse a few paragraphs, fix a letter you no longer have the original of. This tool gives you exactly that, a .docx file with the PDF’s text in proper paragraphs, ready to change. It doesn’t try to rebuild the page’s design, which keeps the result clean and easy to edit.
How to convert
- Choose up to 10 PDFs, each up to 100 MB.
- Press Convert to Word.
- Download each .docx file, or all of them as a ZIP, and open them in Word or any word processor that opens .docx files.
What comes across
- Headings: text set bigger than the body text becomes Word’s Heading 1, 2 or 3, so the navigation pane and a table of contents work straight away.
- Paragraphs: lines that the PDF broke to fit the page are joined back into whole paragraphs.
- Lists: bulleted lines become a Word bullet list; numbered steps keep their own numbers.
- Pages: each PDF page starts a new page in Word, and the page size matches the PDF’s.
What the simplified layout leaves out
Fonts, colors, bold and italic, columns, tables, pictures, and page headers and footers aren’t copied. Lone page numbers at the top or bottom of a page are dropped too. Tables come out as lines of text, and two columns may come out one after the other or mixed, depending on how the PDF was made. For a document whose look matters, such as a brochure, keep the PDF and copy only the text you need.
Tidying the result in Word
- Check the headings in Word’s navigation pane (View, then Navigation Pane). A heading that came out at the wrong level is one click to fix with the Styles gallery.
- Look for joins where a table or a caption ran into a paragraph, and press Enter to split them.
- Ask for the original: if the PDF was made from a Word file, its sender may still have the .docx, which keeps every detail.
Before you start
- Scans: a PDF made from a scanner or camera holds pictures of pages. There’s no text in it to convert, and the tool says so.
- Password-protected PDFs need the password removed first.
- Only the text: for a plain .txt file instead, use PDF to Text; for notes apps and websites, PDF to Markdown.