PDF to Word Converter — Free, Editable Output
Pull every text run out of your PDF and rebuild a clean, fully-editable .docx with headings, paragraphs and basic styles preserved. Browser-only.
Drop a PDF to convert to .docx
… or click below. We extract every text block and rebuild a Word document — fully editable.
Conversion mode
Page range
Heads-up: PDF → Word is inherently lossy. We do our best to reconstruct paragraphs and basic styles, but very complex layouts (multi-column, floating tables, footnotes) may need manual touch-up. For scanned PDFs, run our OCR PDF first.
Convert PDF to Word online — free, fully editable, no upload
"PDF to Word" is one of those tools every PDF site claims to have but most do badly. The reason: PDF and Word are fundamentally different formats. PDF is a fixed-layout, paint-on-page format. Word is a flowing, semantic, paragraph-based format. Converting between the two is not a one-to-one mapping — it's a reconstruction. The quality of the result depends entirely on how clever the reconstruction is.
GN PDF approaches PDF-to-Word as a content recovery operation. We parse every text run from your PDF using Mozilla's pdf.js, cluster runs by vertical position into paragraphs, detect headings by font size, recover bold / italic / size / colour where possible, and emit a clean .docx using the docx.js library. The output is editable in Word, LibreOffice, Google Docs, Pages, or any compliant editor.
Two modes — pick the right one for your file
- Flowing text (default). Best for reports, articles, letters, books, CVs. Text reflows naturally so you can edit freely.
- Preserve layout. Best for forms, certificates, single-page deliverables where the exact position of each text element matters. Output uses Word text boxes positioned to match the original.
When to use PDF-to-Word
- Inheriting a contract / template only as a PDF — convert to Word to make changes.
- Translating a document — paste each paragraph into a translator and reflow.
- Re-using research from a published PDF in your own write-up.
- Updating an old CV that was sent as PDF.
- Accessibility — Word documents work better with screen readers than image-based PDFs.
What it can and cannot do
What it does well: paragraphs, headings, bold/italic, font size, lists (most cases), tables (simple), hyperlinks, inline images, page breaks. What it does as a best-effort: multi-column layouts (we serialise into single column), complex tables with merged cells, floating text boxes, equations from LaTeX (rendered as images). What it doesn't do: re-create a scanned PDF as text (use OCR PDF first).