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Turn a PDF into an editable Word document.
Extracts the text from every page into a .docx file you can actually edit — processed entirely in your browser.
Max 50MB per PDF, 300 pages. Keeps text sizes, bold and italic, centered lines, bullet lists, and links. Pages with no selectable text (scanned or image-only) are added as images. Drawn lines, multi-column layouts, and tables won't carry over — use Exact look for those.
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Processed entirely on your device — nothing is uploaded
How This Tool Works
Your PDF is read entirely on your own device using PDF.js, the same open-source engine behind Firefox's built-in PDF viewer. The text on each page, along with its position and font size, is extracted and grouped back into lines, then written into a real .docx file using the docx library, both running locally in your browser tab. Nothing is uploaded to a server.
In Editable text mode, the formatting the PDF actually records is carried over: each run of text keeps its font size, font family, and bold or italic style (read from the embedded font's name), centered lines stay centered, small caps stay small caps, links stay clickable, bullet points (•) become real bulleted list items, and the page size, margins, and spacing between sections are matched. What it doesn't recreate are things that aren't text — drawn lines and borders, multi-column layouts, tables, and images placed on a text page — since faithfully rebuilding those from a PDF's raw drawing commands is a much harder problem.
Exact look mode skips text extraction and places each page into the Word file as a picture, so it looks identical to the PDF — lines, columns, and all — but the text isn't editable.
When This Works Best
- Text-heavy PDFs: letters, reports, articles, simple forms.
- PDFs that were originally created from a text editor, not scanned images. A scanned page has no real text to extract, just a picture of text, so it's added to the Word file as an image instead of editable text.
- Documents where you mainly need the words back in an editable format. If you need a pixel-perfect copy of a heavily designed layout instead, use Exact look.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?
No — the entire conversion happens in your browser using PDF.js and the docx library. The file never leaves your device.
Will my PDF's design and formatting carry over?
In Editable text mode, mostly yes: font sizes, fonts, bold and italic, centered lines, small caps, bullet lists, links, margins, and spacing are kept. Drawn lines and borders, tables, multi-column layouts, and images on a text page won't appear. For a résumé or other designed document where every line matters, choose Exact look — it keeps the design pixel-for-pixel, at the cost of the text not being editable.
Will tables and images convert too?
Not in Editable text mode — tables and images embedded on a text page won't appear in the resulting .docx, though pages that are entirely an image are added as a picture of the page. In Exact look mode, everything on the page is kept, because each page becomes a picture.
What happens with a scanned PDF?
A scanned document is just an image of text, not real, selectable text, so there's nothing for the extraction to pull out. Instead of a blank page, each scanned page is added to the Word file as an image, so you still see the content — but the words won't be editable. Making them editable needs OCR (optical character recognition), which this tool doesn't do.
Is there a page limit?
PDFs over 300 pages or 50MB aren't supported, to keep the conversion running smoothly entirely in your browser tab.