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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 bullet lists and bolds larger heading-like text. Multi-column layouts, tables, images, and exact fonts inside the PDF won't carry over.
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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.
Bullet points (•) are converted into real bulleted list items, and lines in a noticeably larger font than the rest of the page — typically section headings — are bolded. This is still a text-extraction conversion, not a layout-reconstruction one: multi-column layouts, tables, and images embedded in the PDF won't be recreated, since faithfully reconstructing those from a PDF's raw content stream is a much harder problem than extracting readable, correctly-formatted text.
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 PDF has no real text to extract at all, just a picture of text).
- Documents where you mainly need the words back in an editable format, not a pixel-perfect copy of the original layout.
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 tables and images convert too?
No — tables and embedded images in the original PDF won't appear in the resulting .docx. Bullet points and larger heading-like text do carry over, as real bulleted list items and bold text.
Why is a scanned PDF coming out empty?
A scanned document is just an image of text, not real, selectable text, so there's nothing for the extraction to pull out. That needs OCR (optical character recognition) first, 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.