PDF to Word
Local only — nothing is uploaded unless you save or share it.
Convert PDF to Word — tables, pictures and all — in your browser
- Drop in a PDF, or click to choose one — up to 25 MB.
- Press Convert to Word. Everything happens in this tab.
- Download the .docx and open it in Word, Google Docs or Pages.
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About this tool
This is a PDF to Word converter that runs inside your own browser tab. Choose a PDF, press convert, and you get back a .docx file you can open in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice or Pages and edit like anything else you wrote yourself. PDF to DOCX is the same job under another name — .docx is simply what a Word document is called. People change PDF to Word for one reason: to edit the words. So it rebuilds the document rather than photographing it. It works from the text layer — the actual characters in the file, and the size, colour and position of every one of them — and reads the structure back out of that geometry. Headings, paragraphs, bulleted and numbered lists, bold, italic, underline and text colour all come across. So do the things a PDF never writes down and most converters quietly drop: tables it drew, tables it merely lined up, the pictures on the page, charts and logos drawn as vector artwork, the running header and footer, footnotes, live links, and the reading order of a page set in two columns. That last one matters more than it sounds. A two-column page has text on both sides of nearly every line, so a converter that reads straight across welds one column to the other and hands back alternating half-sentences. Here the columns are found and read in order. What it will not do is repaint the page. If you need a pixel-perfect copy of a designed layout, you want the original file. What you get is a PDF to editable Word conversion — the words, in the right order, in a shape you can rewrite — which is what separates a PDF converter to Word from one that only pulls the text out. The file never leaves your device. If you convert PDF to Word document files for work, that is exactly where it matters, because contracts, statements, applications and letters are what people convert. There is no upload to trust, because there is no upload — and that is also what keeps PDF to Word free here, however many files you run through it.
Frequently asked questions
Is this PDF to Word converter really free?
Yes, with no sign-up and no limit on how many files you convert. The work happens on your own computer, so it costs us nothing to run and there is nothing to meter.
Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?
No. The conversion runs in your browser tab using your own machine. The file is never sent to us or to anyone else, which you can confirm by turning off your internet connection after the page has loaded — the tool still works.
Are pictures and tables carried over?
Yes. Photographs and diagrams come across as pictures, and a table comes across as a real Word table you can put the cursor in — including the shading on its header row and the alignment of a money column. Charts and logos drawn as vector artwork are painted into the document rather than dropped, and a table that was never given borders is rebuilt without adding any.
Will the Word document look exactly like the PDF?
Close, but not pixel for pixel, and that is deliberate. This rebuilds the document as editable text rather than repainting the page. A converter that reproduces the look usually does it with fixed text boxes, which are miserable to edit. Paper size, margins, line spacing, indents and alignment are all carried over, so it should open looking like the same document — one you can actually change.
Why does it say there is no text to convert?
Because the PDF is a scan or a photo. A scanned page is a picture of text, with no characters stored in the file, so there is nothing to convert into a Word document. You need OCR first — our image to text tool reads the words out of a picture, and you can paste those into Word.
Does it handle two columns, headers and footnotes?
Yes. A page set in two columns is read column by column instead of straight across. A running title or page number is lifted into Word's own header and footer, with the page number as a field that keeps counting. Footnotes become real footnotes, numbered by Word, so they stay attached when you edit.
Can I convert a password-protected PDF?
Not while it is protected. Open it in a PDF reader with the password, save an unprotected copy, and convert that.
What file do I actually get?
A .docx file — the modern Word format, which Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice Writer, Apple Pages and Office Online all open directly.
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