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Convert PDF to Word
Get a .docx where the text is text you can actually edit — real paragraphs, not a page of frozen text boxes. Free, no account, no watermark. Read the note below on what survives and what does not; this is the one conversion where honesty matters more than the marketing.
- 100% free
- No signup
- Batch convert
Drop your PDF files here
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Supports PDF · Max 30 MB per file · Up to 100 files
You can also paste a copied image with Ctrl+V / ⌘V
- Secure & privateYour files are never shared
- Lightning fastMost images in under a second
- High qualitymozjpeg and libvips under the hood
- Works everywhereAny device, any browser
Input, output and limits
Every figure below is read from the same configuration the server enforces, so this page cannot promise a limit the system will refuse.
- Input formats
- application/pdf
- Output format
- application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
- Maximum file size
- 30 MB per file
- Batch processing
- Yes — several files at once, downloaded as one ZIP
- Price
- Free, with no account and no watermark
- Processing
- On our own server, then deleted automatically
- Engine
- pdfplumber with python-docx and openpyxl (MIT)
- File retention
- Upload and result both deleted after 24 hours
Output quality
The document is rebuilt rather than converted, and the difference matters. We read every text run with its coordinates and font, group runs into lines, group lines into paragraphs by measuring vertical gaps, detect tables and rebuild them as real Word tables, then write it all out as a normal .docx. That produces a file where editing a sentence reflows the paragraph the way you expect — the single most useful property a Word document can have, and the one that tools built on PDF-to-Draw import throw away by turning every phrase into an absolutely positioned text box. The honest costs: multi-column layouts are read in coordinate order and may interleave; exact fonts are replaced by document defaults; headers, footers and page numbers usually arrive as ordinary paragraphs; and images embedded in the page are not carried into the .docx in this version. Bold headings, reading order, and table structure are the things you can count on.
See what this tool actually did to real files — median size change, speed and sample size, published whichever way the numbers fall.
Common use cases
Editing a contract you were sent as a PDF
Get the clauses into Word, make your changes with tracked changes on, and send it back.
Reusing text from a report
Far faster than copy-pasting page by page, and the paragraph breaks survive instead of collapsing into one block.
Updating a document whose source file is lost
The .docx becomes the new working copy when the original is long gone.
Pulling a table out of a PDF
Tables are rebuilt as real Word tables, so the columns stay columns instead of becoming tab-separated soup.
Troubleshooting
- The document came back empty and said there was no text layer
- Your PDF is a scan or an image export. Try selecting text in your PDF reader — if you cannot highlight a word, there is no text to extract, and you need OCR rather than this tool.
- Paragraphs are broken in odd places
- Paragraph boundaries are inferred from line spacing, and unusual leading confuses that. It is quicker to fix in Word than to fight: turn on formatting marks and delete the stray breaks.
- A two-column page came out jumbled
- Text is read in coordinate order, so columns can interleave. If the source has a single-column version, use it. Otherwise expect to reorder those pages by hand.
Something else went wrong? Tell us what happened — a person reads every report, and that is how this list gets longer.
Privacy and file deletion
- Stored under a random nameUploads have no connection to the file name you sent and are never served from a public directory. This tool accepts files up to 30 MB, several at a time.
- Deleted on a timerUploads are removed within 2 hours and finished results within 24 hours, whichever comes first.
- Nobody looks at themNo one browses uploads, nothing is shared with third parties, and no file is used to train anything. The only thing kept past deletion is the size and timing of the job.
- Encrypted in transitEvery request runs over HTTPS, so the file is encrypted between your device and our server.
Full privacy policyHow the system is builtWhat we measure, and why it is kept
Frequently asked questions
Browse pdf toolsHow close to the original will it look?
Close on structure, not identical on layout. This is worth understanding because every tool that promises a perfect copy is overselling it. A PDF does not store paragraphs — it stores runs of glyphs at fixed coordinates on a page. Any conversion has to guess where paragraphs begin and end from the spacing, and guesses are sometimes wrong. What you reliably get is flowing, editable text in the right reading order, headings still bold, and tables still tables. What you do not get is a pixel-perfect clone with every margin and text box reproduced.
Why does my scanned PDF come out empty?
Because a scan is a photograph of a page, not text. There is no text layer to extract, so there is nothing to put in the Word document — and rather than hand you a blank file, we tell you outright. Getting text out of a scan needs OCR, which is a different job and something we do not offer yet.
Do you keep the original formatting?
Partly, and deliberately so. Bold headings, table structure and reading order carry across. Exact fonts, precise margins, columns and floating text boxes generally do not — reproducing those means producing a document made of positioned boxes, which looks right until you try to edit a sentence and the whole page falls apart. We favour a document you can work in.
Is my PDF uploaded to your server?
Yes, and this is the exception among our PDF tools. Merge, split, compress, rotate and the rest run entirely inside your browser and send nothing anywhere. This one needs analysis libraries that cannot run in a tab. Your file is stored under a random name, is never read by a person, and is deleted automatically within 24 hours.
Is there a page limit?
Three hundred pages per file, and up to 30 MB. The limit is about time rather than size — extraction speed depends on how much text is on the pages, so a dense 400-page report is the slow case, not a big file full of photographs.
What happens to the images I upload in a batch?
Files up to 30 MB are accepted, and a batch is handled as separate jobs that are zipped together at the end. Every upload is stored under a random name, never served from a public folder, and deleted 24 hours after the job starts — the finished file goes at the same moment. We never share them and there is no account they could be tied to. The one thing we do is compare the original against the result in our own admin area, to be sure the compression has not softened the picture.