PDF to Word
Turn a digital PDF back into an editable .docx file, preserving paragraphs, lists and basic styling. Best on PDFs originally exported from Word.
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Turn a digital PDF back into an editable .docx file, preserving paragraphs, lists and basic styling. Best on PDFs originally exported from Word.
We're still building this one. We'd rather not ship it until it works reliably end-to-end — no fake progress bars, no pretend success screens.
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Going deeper
PDF-to-Word conversion, honestly
PDF and Word solve different problems. PDF is a final-form, presentation-layer format — every glyph is positioned to the pixel, every line break is hard-coded, every column is an absolute layout. Word is a content-and-structure format — paragraphs flow, line breaks depend on the viewer's available width, columns are a property of a section. Going from PDF to Word is like trying to recover a recipe from a photo of the finished cake.
Good converters do the best they can: they read the text in order, infer paragraph breaks, recognize list items by their numbering pattern, and rebuild tables from cell positions. The output is usually editable, but rarely pixel-perfect to the source. Complex layouts (multi-column magazines, floating sidebars, text wrapping around images) tend to break the most. For text-dominant PDFs (reports, essays, contracts), the conversion is usually clean.
We're not willing to ship a converter that quietly mangles your documents. Our roadmap has a proper converter that handles real-world PDFs well, but until it does, the coming-soon notice stays. PDF to Text is available today for cases where you just need the words, not the formatting.
What you get
Features
Editable .docx output
Preserves paragraph structure where possible
Handles basic tables and lists
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Step by step
How to use
- 1
Upload the PDF you want to convert.
- 2
Click Convert.
- 3
Download the .docx file.
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Open in Word or Google Docs and edit.
Your privacy
How this tool handles your file
When this tool ships, your PDF will be processed in a per-request temp directory and deleted immediately afterwards.
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