Convert a PDF to an editable Word .docx in your browser: text, paragraphs, headings, bold and italic, one Word page per PDF page. Scanned pages come in as pictures (no OCR).
Kept
Not kept or approximate
Works in your browser. What you paste or upload is processed on your device.
Tap or click the box and pick a PDF, or drag it in. The first page, page count and whether it has selectable text appear straight away.
If the PDF is password-protected, type its password. It is used only in this tab.
Convert all pages or enter a range. Keep the PDF's fonts, and add page pictures if the PDF has charts or images.
Press Convert to Word. Long PDFs show progress page by page.
Download the .docx and open it in Word, Google Docs or Pages. Tidy any tables or multi-column pages.
A PDF fixes text in place so it prints the same everywhere, which is exactly why it is hard to edit. This converter rebuilds the PDF as a Word document (.docx) you can change in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Apple Pages or LibreOffice.
It reads the PDF's text layer in your browser with pdf.js: every piece of text with its position, size and font. Pieces on the same baseline become lines, lines with the same size, spacing and left edge become paragraphs (with line-end hyphens removed), and larger text becomes Heading 1, 2 or 3, so Word's navigation pane works. Bold and italic come from the fonts, centred and indented lines keep their alignment, and every PDF page becomes its own Word section with the same page size and margins, so page breaks line up with the original.
Text set out in rows and columns becomes a real Word table; a bold header row repeats at the top of each page. Honest limits: merged cells, borders and shading aren't copied, and the PDF's exact font names aren't readable in the browser, so text is set in Calibri, Times New Roman or Courier New to match its style. Images, charts and drawings aren't extracted as separate objects; turn on "Add a picture of each page" to keep them as an image after the page's text. Pages in two or more columns are read across the page. Scanned PDFs have no text layer, so their pages are added as pictures, and their text isn't editable without OCR.
Retyping a PDF to change one paragraph wastes an afternoon. A text-based PDF already holds every word, so a converter that rebuilds paragraphs and headings gets you an editable draft in seconds. Doing it in the browser matters for contracts, CVs and invoices: the file never reaches a server, so there is nothing to delete afterwards.
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Yes. The conversion runs in your browser with JavaScript, and the PDF is never uploaded to AI Rank Lab or anyone else. The only request the tool makes is a small check that counts your daily free run; it doesn't include the file or its contents.
The text, paragraphs, headings, bold, italic and page breaks come across, and pages keep their size and margins. Layout that PDFs draw by position, such as tables, text boxes, columns and text over images, is simplified: simple tables become Word tables without their borders or merged cells, and multi-column pages are read across. Expect an editable draft that may need a few minutes of tidying, not a pixel-perfect copy.
No. A scanned PDF is a set of photos of pages with no text layer, and this tool doesn't do OCR (text recognition). It still converts the file, adding each scanned page to the Word document as a picture, and it tells you before you start when a PDF looks scanned.
Tables whose rows and columns line up become real Word tables you can edit, with the header row repeating on each page. Merged cells, colours and borders aren't copied, so give complex tables a quick check. Images aren't pulled out one by one; switch on "Add a picture of each page" to put an image of each page after its text, so charts and logos aren't lost.
Yes. Open this page in Safari or Chrome, tap the box and pick the PDF from Files, iCloud Drive or Google Drive. The .docx downloads to your phone and opens in the Word, Google Docs or Pages app. Very long PDFs are faster on a computer.
Yes, if you know the password. The tool asks for it, opens the PDF in your browser and converts it. The Word file it creates has no password.
Up to 200 MB. Text-only PDFs of a few hundred pages convert in under a minute on a laptop. Adding page pictures makes the run slower and the Word file larger, so pick a page range if you only need part of a long PDF.
You get one free run of this tool per day. After that, each run costs 5 credits (5 US cents) from a free AI Rank Lab account, and the free run comes back the next day.
Each one opens on its own page and works straight away, with no sign-up.
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