PDF to Word

Edit a PDF's text in Word

Sometimes you need to rework a PDF but don't have the original Word file. Copying text out of a PDF breaks every line and loses headings. This tool reads the PDF's text, joins lines back into paragraphs and turns larger text into headings, and gives you an editable .docx file. Keep the original page breaks or join everything into one flowing document.

What converts well

• Works well — single-column, text-heavy documents: reports, letters, contracts, drafts.
• Gets simplified — tables become lines of text, two-column layouts may interleave, and images, shapes and decorative headers are dropped. To keep tables, use PDF Table to Excel as well.
• Doesn't work — scanned or photographed PDFs contain no text. Run them through Image to Text (OCR) first.

Options

Setting the body text to 11 pt or 10 pt makes the document easy to tidy up in Word; “Follow the original” keeps sizes close to the PDF. Short lines at least 25% larger than body text are treated as headings, and lines starting with numbers or bullets start new paragraphs. The preview shows how the first three pages were split into paragraphs.

The .docx opens in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice and Pages. Keep the original PDF if the exact layout matters, and respect copyright when you reuse someone else's document. Nothing is uploaded.