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PDF to Word

Turn a PDF into a fully editable Word document that keeps its layout — paragraphs, tables and images in place. Your file is converted on our server and deleted the moment it's done, never stored.

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Drop a PDF here or click to browseOne PDF, up to 25 MB

Free — sign in (Google or email) to convert. Sign-in only keeps the tool free of abuse.

Your PDF is sent to our server, converted, and deleted immediately — we never store it. Works best on text-based PDFs; scanned/image-only PDFs won't convert well. 25 MB limit.

Your editable .docx will download here once the server finishes converting your PDF.

How PDF to Word conversion actually works

A PDF isn't a document you can edit — it's a fixed snapshot, a set of instructions for painting text and shapes onto a page. To get a usable Word file back, something has to read that page, work out where the paragraphs, columns, tables and images really are, and rebuild them as native Word objects. This tool does exactly that: it sends your PDF to our server, where a document-parsing engine reconstructs a true .docx — headings, body text, tables and inline images become real, editable elements, not a flat wall of text pasted into a box. You open the result in Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice and keep writing.

It works best on PDFs that were born from text — reports, contracts, articles, exported documents. The genuinely hard cases are scanned pages or image-only PDFs (there's no text to recover, only a picture) and heavily-designed layouts with overlapping columns, sidebars and decorative typography, where any converter has to make judgement calls. Because the conversion needs real server resources, we ask you to sign in first — but the file itself is processed and then deleted immediately. Nothing is stored, and your document never lingers on our side.

How to use

  1. 1

    Add your PDF.

    Drag a PDF onto the drop zone or click to browse. One file at a time, up to 25 MB.

  2. 2

    Sign in to convert.

    Conversion runs on our server, so a quick sign-in with Google or email keeps the tool free of abuse.

  3. 3

    Let the server rebuild it.

    Your PDF is uploaded and the parsing engine reconstructs paragraphs, tables and images as editable Word content.

  4. 4

    Download your .docx.

    The editable Word file downloads automatically with the same name as your PDF. Open it anywhere and edit freely.

  5. 5

    Convert another.

    Done in seconds. Drop in the next PDF — each file is deleted from our server as soon as it's converted.

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