PDF to Word
Convert PDF files to editable Word documents. Works with scanned PDFs using OCR. Preserves tables, images and formatting.
Free tier: PDF · up to 5 MB · Pro: 50 MB
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How to convert a PDF to Word online for free
- Upload your PDF — drag and drop any PDF, digital or scanned, up to 5 MB free. Optionally enter a password for protected files.
- Automatic analysis and OCR: the tool detects whether each page is digital text or a scanned image. Scanned pages run through Tesseract OCR before conversion.
- Layout-aware conversion: pdf2docx converts the PDF preserving tables, columns, images, and headings as faithfully as the Word format allows.
- Download your editable .docx and open it in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice.
Why use our PDF to Word converter?
Most PDF viewers let you read a document but not edit it. Converting to Word gives you a fully editable file — perfect for updating contracts, reusing formatted reports, or extracting content from PDFs you did not create yourself.
What sets this tool apart is built-in OCR. Scanned PDFs — the kind you get from a photocopier or a photographed document — are automatically detected and run through Tesseract OCR before conversion, so even image-only pages come out as editable text. Most free converters skip this step entirely.
No account needed, no watermark, and your file is never stored. The converted .docx opens in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and LibreOffice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes — completely free for PDFs up to 5 MB with no account required. The free version adds a small footer to the converted document. Pro users ($6/mo) can convert PDFs up to 50 MB with no watermark.
Yes. The tool automatically detects scanned pages and runs OCR (Optical Character Recognition) using Tesseract before converting. The extracted text becomes fully editable in Word. Quality depends on scan resolution — 300 DPI or higher gives the best results.
For text-based (digital) PDFs, the converter preserves paragraphs, headings, tables, images, and most layout elements. Complex multi-column layouts and unusual fonts may differ slightly — PDF and Word use different layout models, so perfect fidelity is impossible.
Click "PDF password protected?" below the upload zone, enter the password, then upload your file. The document is decrypted on our server, converted, and the original password is never stored.
Yes. No account, no email, no signup — just upload and download. Files are processed in-memory and deleted automatically after conversion.
Most free converters only handle simple text PDFs. This tool uses a full OCR pipeline (OCRmyPDF + Tesseract) for scanned documents, pdf2docx for layout-aware conversion that preserves tables and images, and python-docx post-processing for clean heading styles. It handles digital, scanned, mixed, and multi-column PDFs.