PDF to Word converter — free, private, in your browser
Extract the text from a PDF into an editable Word document — with no uploads.
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded — they stay on your device.
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Most “PDF to Word” converters ask you to upload your document to a server before you ever see a result. This tool works entirely inside your browser: the PDF is read on your device, its text is pulled out, and a Word file is built locally — nothing is ever uploaded.
It is built for text-based PDFs, where the words are real, selectable text. It recovers the wording so you can keep editing in Word, but it does not reproduce the exact page layout, columns or styling. Scanned or image-only PDFs contain no text to extract, so they will not work here (there is no OCR).
How it works
When you add a PDF, the file is loaded straight into your browser's memory — it is never sent to a server. The tool uses pdf.js, the same open-source PDF engine that powers Firefox's built-in viewer, to read each page and pull out its text items. Those items carry the actual characters stored in the document along with their positions on the page.
The extracted text is then grouped back into lines and paragraphs and handed to the docx library, which assembles a standard Word file in the .docx format. All of this happens locally in JavaScript, so the conversion finishes on your own machine and the resulting file is offered to you as a download. Because the work is done client-side, nothing about your document — not the text, not the filename — leaves your device.
When to use it
Reach for this when you have a text-based PDF and you want the words back in an editable form. Good examples are a contract or report you received as a PDF and need to revise, a research paper or article you want to quote and reformat, lecture notes or a manual you want to annotate, or boilerplate from an old PDF that you would rather rewrite than retype.
It is especially useful for sensitive material — legal drafts, medical letters, financial statements, HR documents — where uploading the file to an unknown server is not an option. Since the PDF is processed in your browser, you can convert confidential documents without them ever being transmitted anywhere.
It is not the right tool when you need a pixel-perfect visual copy of the original. Layout, columns, tables, embedded images and exact fonts are not reproduced; you get the wording in clean, editable paragraphs to work from.
Tips
Check whether your PDF is text-based before converting: open it in a viewer and try to select a sentence with your cursor. If the text highlights, extraction will work; if you can only draw a box over a picture, the page is a scanned image and there is no text to recover — this tool does not run OCR.
After converting, skim the extracted-text preview to confirm the wording came through, then expect to do some light tidying in Word. Multi-column PDFs may interleave columns, and headers, footers or page numbers can appear inline, so a quick read-through and reflow is normal. For best results, start from PDFs that were exported from a word processor or generated digitally rather than printed and rescanned.
How to use PDF to Word
- Add your PDF by dropping it onto the box above or clicking to browse.
- Click “Convert to Word” — the text is read and rebuilt into paragraphs in your browser.
- Review the extracted-text preview to confirm the wording came through.
- Download the editable .docx file and open it in Word or any compatible editor.
Frequently asked questions
Is my PDF uploaded to a server?
No. The PDF is read and converted entirely in your browser. Your file never leaves your device, which makes this safe for private and confidential documents.
Will the Word file look exactly like my PDF?
No. This tool extracts the text into editable paragraphs, not a pixel-perfect copy. Complex layouts, columns, tables, fonts and images are not reproduced — you get clean, editable text to work from.
Why does my scanned PDF come out empty?
A scanned PDF is really a set of images with no underlying text, so there is nothing to extract. This tool does not perform OCR, so it only works with PDFs that contain real, selectable text.
What format is the result?
A standard .docx file that opens in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice and other modern word processors.
Do I need to install anything or sign up?
No. It runs in any modern browser with no installation, no account and no cost.