PDF to Word — Convert PDF to .docx
Drop a PDF and get a Word document you can edit. The text layer is read in your browser, lines that were wrapped by the PDF are rejoined into real paragraphs, larger text becomes headings, and page breaks are preserved — no upload, no queue, no watermark.
Drop PDF files here or click to select
One or many · a .docx per file
No PDF handy? Try sample-10-pages.pdf, or see what a scan does with the scanned sample. More free sample files.
What you get
A real .docx — an Office Open XML package, not an HTML file with a Word extension — that opens in Word, LibreOffice, Pages and Google Docs. The text is fully editable, headings carry Word's built-in Heading 1 and Heading 2 styles so the navigation pane and table of contents work, and each PDF page ends with a page break unless you turn that off.
What you do not get is a pixel-perfect clone. A PDF stores positioned glyphs, not paragraphs, so a converter has to infer document structure — and the honest trade is a clean, editable document rather than a fragile one full of text boxes. Images, vector drawings, and multi-column layouts are not reconstructed.
How the structure is inferred
- Lines. Text items are grouped by their vertical position, then sorted left to right, which reassembles each visual line.
- Headings. The median text size across the document is taken as body text. A line at least 45% larger becomes Heading 1; at least 18% larger becomes Heading 2.
- Paragraphs. A line that does not end in sentence punctuation and is long enough to look like a full line is treated as wrapped, and the next line is appended to it. Hyphenated word breaks at the end of a line are stitched back together.
- Pages. Each page boundary becomes a Word page break, so the pagination you saw in the PDF survives.
Step by step
- Drop your PDFs. A batch is fine — you get one
.docxper file. - Choose how much structure to infer. The defaults suit a report or an article; switch to plain paragraphs for a document with unusual typography.
- Click Convert to Word. Everything runs locally, so the time depends on your machine rather than a server queue.
- Open and tidy. Check heading levels and any table that came through as plain lines — tables are better handled by PDF to Excel.
Scanned PDFs need OCR first
If a page is a picture of text, there is no text layer to read and the conversion has nothing to work with — you will get an error saying so. Run the file through OCR first: that recognises the words and adds a real text layer, after which this tool converts it like any other PDF.
FAQ
Is the output a real Word file?
Yes — a valid .docx package with document.xml, styles and relationships, built in your browser. Word, LibreOffice, Pages and Google Docs all open it natively.
Will the layout look exactly like the PDF?
No, and that is deliberate. Text flows as normal paragraphs rather than being pinned into text boxes, which is what makes it editable. Fonts, images, columns and exact spacing are not reproduced.
What happens to tables?
They come through as lines of text, since this converter builds paragraphs. For tabular data use PDF to Excel or PDF to CSV, which detect columns from text positions.
Why is my scanned PDF rejected?
A scan has no text layer, so there is nothing to convert. OCR it first, then come back.
Is my document uploaded?
Never. The PDF is parsed and the .docx assembled entirely in this page — you can disconnect from the network after loading it and the conversion still works.
Related tools
- PDF to Text — plain text with no formatting at all
- PDF to Markdown — headings and lists for a README or wiki
- PDF to HTML — a web page, flowing or absolutely positioned
- PDF to Excel — when the content is really a table
- OCR PDF — add a text layer to a scan first