PDF to Word
Extract a PDF’s text into an editable .docx, privately.
How to use
- 1 Drop a PDF onto the box, or click to choose one.
- 2 The selectable text is extracted locally, page by page.
- 3 A Word .docx download starts automatically.
- 4 Open the .docx in Word or Google Docs to edit.
About PDF to Word
The PDF to Word tool pulls the selectable text out of a PDF and writes it into a real, editable Word .docx document — all inside your browser.
It reads the PDF with the same engine browsers use to display them, gathers the text line by line, and assembles a valid Office Open XML document you can open in Word, LibreOffice or Google Docs and start editing immediately.
This is the conversion people actually need most of the time: you have a PDF and you want to reuse its wording — quote it, revise it, repurpose it — without retyping.
Doing it locally matters, because the alternative is uploading a possibly confidential document to a server you do not control.
Here, nothing leaves your device and it works offline.
Two honest limitations to keep in mind.
First, it converts text, not layout: fonts, columns, images and precise positioning are not reproduced — you get clean, editable content rather than a visual clone.
Second, it needs real text to extract; a scanned PDF that is just photographs of pages has no selectable text, so it cannot be converted without OCR, which this privacy-first tool does not perform.
For text-based PDFs, it gives you an editable Word file in seconds.
FAQ
Is my PDF uploaded to a server?
No. The text is extracted and the .docx is built entirely in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Will it keep the original layout and images?
No. It extracts text into an editable document; fonts, columns, images and exact positioning are not reproduced.
Why did my scanned PDF come out empty?
Scanned PDFs are images of pages with no selectable text. Converting those needs OCR, which this privacy-first tool does not run.