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PDF to Word

Turn a PDF into a Word document you can actually edit: real paragraphs, headings, bullet lists, tables and images, with the original page size. Scanned PDFs can be read with OCR, and nothing is uploaded.

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  • Files stay on your device
  • No sign-up
  • Free, no limits
Works best with text-based PDFs such as reports, letters, resumes, contracts and simple forms. Complex layouts (multi-column magazines, text boxes, fill-in forms, charts drawn as vector graphics) will not be pixel-perfect: text is rebuilt as editable paragraphs, fonts are matched to common Word fonts, and drawings other than images are not converted. If you only need the words, PDF to Text is faster and keeps every line exactly.

How to use PDF to Word

  1. 1Drop a PDF into the box. If it has an open password, type it when asked.
  2. 2Wait while each page is read. If pages are scanned, pick the document language and click Run OCR.
  3. 3Check the structure preview and the counts of headings, lists, tables and images. Turn Keep original line breaks, Detect tables or Include images on or off if needed.
  4. 4Click Download Word (.docx) and open the file in Word, Google Docs, Pages or LibreOffice.

What carries over to Word

  • Paragraphs, not lines. Lines that wrapped in the PDF are joined back into paragraphs, and hyphenated words split across lines are repaired, so editing reflows naturally. Turn on Keep original line breaks for addresses or poems.
  • Headings. Text clearly larger than the body becomes Word Heading 1, 2 or 3, so the navigation pane and table of contents work.
  • Fonts and styles. Bold, italic, sizes and colored text are kept. Font names are matched to common Word fonts such as Arial, Times New Roman, Calibri or Malgun Gothic.
  • Lists. Bullet lists become real Word bullet lists. Numbered lists keep their numbers as typed, with a hanging indent.
  • Tables. Tables drawn with lines become Word tables with borders, including merged cells. Neatly aligned columns without lines become borderless tables.
  • Images are placed in line with the text where they appear, and the page size, orientation, margins and page breaks follow the PDF.

Scanned PDFs and OCR

A scanned PDF is a picture of a page, with no text inside. The tool detects these pages and offers OCR (text recognition) with Tesseract for English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Italian. The recognition engine and language data are downloaded the first time you use them, then OCR runs on your device. Recognized pages become editable paragraphs; without OCR they go into Word as images. If a normal PDF produces garbled symbols, open Text comes out garbled? and OCR every page.

Honest limits

A PDF stores where each letter goes, not how the document was built, so every converter has to guess. Reports, letters, resumes, contracts and simple forms convert well. Multi-column magazine layouts are rebuilt as a single column in reading order, text boxes and form fields become ordinary paragraphs, rotated text is left out, charts drawn as vector graphics are not converted, and the result will not be pixel-perfect. Colored words inside a sentence may come out black. If you only need the words, PDF to Text is faster and keeps every line exactly.

Frequently asked questions

Is PDF to Word free and private?

Yes. There is no sign-up or page limit, and the conversion runs entirely in your browser, so the PDF is never uploaded. Only OCR downloads its engine and language data once.

Can I edit the converted document in Word?

Yes. Text comes out as normal paragraphs with real headings, lists and tables, not as text boxes positioned on the page, so you can type, delete and reflow freely.

Does it work with scanned PDFs?

Yes. Scanned pages are detected and you can run OCR on them. Accuracy depends on scan quality; check names and numbers afterwards.

Will the layout look exactly like the PDF?

Close for simple documents, but not pixel-perfect. Fonts may be substituted, so lines can wrap differently, and complex layouts are simplified to a single column.

What about password-protected PDFs?

If the PDF has an open password, type it in the box that appears. It is only used in your browser.

Does it support Korean and other languages?

Yes. Text in any language is extracted from normal PDFs, and Korean text gets a Korean font such as Malgun Gothic in Word. OCR supports nine languages including Korean.