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Pull the text out of a PDF into an editable .docx.
On your device. No watermark. No sign-up.
This tool is processed locally with JavaScript inside your browser tab. The document is not uploaded, stored or seen by a server, which makes it suitable for contracts, invoices, CVs and medical or financial records.
It reads the text of your PDF and builds a plain .docx from it. You get the words, in reading order, as editable text. It does not rebuild images, tables, columns or fonts.
Each page of the PDF is followed by a page break in the Word file. The first line of a page becomes a heading when it is short (under 80 characters) and starts with a capital letter or a digit.
Because the result is plain text, bold, italics, colours and font choices are not kept. Think of it as a way to get the wording out of a PDF and into an editable file.
Expect each line of the PDF to become its own paragraph in Word. A paragraph that wraps over four lines in the PDF arrives as four short paragraphs. We tested this with a sample page, and it is the main clean-up job after converting.
To join the lines in Word, use Find and Replace and replace the paragraph mark (type ^p in the Find box) with a space, then put real paragraph breaks back where you need them. On a long document, do it one section at a time.
A scanned PDF is a picture of a page and contains no text, so there is nothing to extract. In that case the tool tells you the PDF has no readable text layer.
Run the file through OCR PDF first. It adds a searchable text layer on your device. Text found by OCR usually needs more clean-up than text from a PDF that was created on a computer.
Images, logos and charts are left out. Tables arrive as lines of text, not as a table. Pages with several columns come out in reading order, which can mix the columns. Headers and footers appear as ordinary lines on each page. Footnotes, text boxes and form fields are not rebuilt.
If the layout matters more than the editing, keep the PDF and fix the source file instead.
For just the words, as plain text, use Extract Text. For tables, use PDF to Excel. For slides, use PDF to PowerPoint. To change a few words in a PDF without converting it, use Edit PDF Text.
If you need the layout, tables and images rebuilt, a desktop program does that better than this tool. Word itself can open a PDF from File, Open, and Adobe Acrobat has its own export to Word. Both rebuild more of the layout, though neither is perfect.
The text is read with PDF.js and the .docx is built with the docx library, both inside this browser tab. The PDF is never sent to a server, so it is safe for contracts, CVs and medical or financial records. After your first visit the tool also works offline.
Yes. There is no account, no daily limit and no watermark in the Word file.
No. The conversion runs inside your browser and the file never leaves your device.
A PDF stores text line by line, not as paragraphs, and this tool turns each line into a paragraph. In Word, replace the paragraph marks (^p) with a space to join the lines, then add real breaks back where you need them.
No. Only text is converted. Images are left out and tables arrive as lines of text.
No. The result is plain text, so fonts, bold, italics and colours are not kept. Page breaks between pages are kept.
The PDF is a scan, so it contains a picture of the text and no text. Run OCR PDF on it first, then convert the searchable copy.
Remove the password first with Remove Password, using the password you already have, then convert the unlocked copy.
Yes. Upload the .docx to Google Drive and open it with Google Docs. It also opens in Microsoft Word and LibreOffice.
Not with this tool. It converts the text only. For layout, try opening the PDF in Word from File, Open, or use a desktop PDF editor.
No limit is set by a server. The practical limit is your device memory, about 100–200 MB on most desktops, and less on a phone.
Yes, in Chrome, Safari and other mobile browsers. Long PDFs are easier on a desktop.
Last updated 12 November 2026
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