PDF → Word

Extract the text from a PDF into a real, editable .docx file. Preserves line breaks as separate paragraphs — not the original visual layout, fonts, images, or tables.

Pull the text out of a PDF into an editable .docx when you need to reuse content that's otherwise locked inside a PDF.

How PDF → Word works

  1. Drop your file into the tool, or click to browse.
  2. Everything runs in your browser — no upload, no server, no waiting.
  3. Download your result straight to your device.

Good to know: It extracts the text and line structure, not the exact visual formatting, and it can only read text that's genuinely text in the PDF. A scanned, image-only PDF has no text layer to pull from, so it won't recover words from a photo of a page.

Common questions

Why does my scanned PDF come out empty?

A scanned document is made of images, not text, so there's nothing to extract. This tool reads real text layers — it doesn't run OCR on scanned pages.