PDF to Word Text Extractor

Key Features and Benefits

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  Text extraction with formatting — The converter reads each text run's font name, size, color, and position. It maps these properties to Word paragraph and character styles — bold, italic, font size, line spacing, and alignment. A 12-point Times New Roman bold heading in the PDF becomes a 12-point Times New Roman bold heading in Word. Character-level formatting is preserved down to individual words, so a sentence with one italic word in the middle comes through correctly.
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  Table reconstruction — Tables are one of the hardest structures to recover from a PDF. The converter detects table grids by analyzing horizontal and vertical line segments, identifies cell boundaries, and maps the enclosed text into a Word table object. It handles merged cells, multi-row headers, and tables that span page breaks. The output is a native Word table that you can edit, resize, and reformat — not an image of a table pasted into the document.
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  Image extraction and placement — Every embedded image in the PDF is extracted at its original resolution and format. The converter places each image in the Word document at the same relative position and dimensions. If the PDF contains a 1200x800 JPEG photograph positioned in the upper-right quadrant of page 3, the Word document will show that same image in the same location. You can then move, resize, or replace it using Word's standard image tools.
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  OCR for scanned documents — Scanned PDFs contain page-sized images with no extractable text — the words are pixels, not characters. The converter includes an OCR engine that recognizes text in these images, identifies the language, and produces editable text positioned to match the original layout. OCR accuracy depends on scan quality — 300 DPI scans with good contrast typically achieve 98-99% character accuracy for printed English text. Handwriting and low-resolution scans produce lower accuracy and may need manual correction.
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  Multi-column layout handling — Newsletters, academic papers, and brochures often use two or three column layouts. The converter detects column boundaries by analyzing the horizontal distribution of text blocks and reconstructs the reading order — left column first, then right column — rather than interleaving lines from both columns. The Word output uses section-based columns or text boxes to approximate the original layout, depending on which approach produces a more editable result.
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  Offline browser-based processing — The conversion happens entirely in your browser using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Your PDF is read from disk, processed in local memory, and the resulting DOCX is saved to your downloads folder. No data is transmitted over the network. This makes the tool suitable for confidential legal documents, patient records, internal reports, and any file you would not want processed on a third-party server.

How to Convert PDF to Word Online

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   Upload your PDF

   Click the upload area or drag your PDF file onto the page. The tool accepts files up to 100 MB and parses them locally. After loading, you see a page count and a preview of the first page. The parser also indicates whether the PDF contains extractable text or is a scanned image — this determines whether OCR processing will be needed.

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   Select conversion options

   Choose between standard text extraction mode and OCR mode. If the PDF has selectable text, standard mode is faster and more accurate. If the file is a scan, enable OCR and select the document language — English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are supported with high accuracy. You can also toggle table detection and image extraction independently if you only need specific elements.

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   Run the conversion

   Click the convert button. The engine processes each page sequentially — extracting text runs, detecting layout regions, reconstructing tables, and pulling out images. OCR pages take longer because each page image must go through character recognition. A 20-page text PDF converts in about 5-8 seconds. A 20-page scanned PDF with OCR takes 20-40 seconds depending on complexity and your machine's processing power.

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   Review the output

   A preview panel shows the converted Word document alongside the original PDF. Scroll through both to compare paragraph alignment, table structure, and image placement. Look for lines that merged incorrectly, table cells that split or combined in the wrong places, or images that shifted position. These are the most common conversion artifacts and knowing where they are saves you editing time later.

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   Download the DOCX file

   Click download to save the Word file. Open it in your preferred word processor and make any manual adjustments. The document uses standard Open XML formatting that is compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 and later, Google Docs, LibreOffice Writer, and Apple Pages. All text is fully editable, tables are native Word tables, and images are embedded as standard media objects.

Expert Tips for PDF to Word Conversion

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PDF to Word conversion is usually the first step in a document revision cycle. You receive a PDF, convert it to Word for editing, make your changes, and then convert it back to PDF for distribution. Along the way, you might merge several PDFs before conversion to work with a single document, or compress the final PDF to meet a file size requirement. Each tool in this chain runs in your browser with no server uploads, so your confidential documents stay on your machine through every step of the process. The round-trip from PDF to Word and back is never perfect, but understanding where the conversion struggles — and planning your editing workflow around those limitations — lets you work efficiently with any document that lands in your inbox.