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PDF to Word

Recovers the text of a PDF as a real Word document: paragraphs rejoined, headings detected from their size, bold and italic runs preserved, and page breaks where the PDF had them. Best on documents that were born digital — for a scan, run OCR first and convert the result.

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How to convert PDF to Word

Paid plans · runs in your browser
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Drop in the PDF.

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Convert.

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Open the .docx in Word, Pages or Google Docs and edit away.

Questions people actually ask

Will the layout match the PDF exactly?

No, and no converter’s does. PDF stores positioned glyphs, not a document model, so the conversion rebuilds a sensible Word document from what is there: flowing paragraphs, headings, emphasis and page breaks. Multi-column layouts and heavy graphic design will be simplified.

My PDF is a scan and the output is empty. Why?

A scan is a picture of text with no text layer to recover. Run OCR PDF first — it reads the pages and writes a real text layer — then convert that.

Do you keep a copy of my file?

No. PDF to Word runs entirely inside your browser using WebAssembly and the Canvas API — the bytes of your document never travel to us. The only thing that reaches our servers is a counter incrementing by one, and whatever you deliberately choose to save to your library.

Is PDF to Word free?

Not this one. PDF to Word is part of Baker, at $10 a month — along with the other conversion, compression and security tools, and the AI ones. Signing, editing, watermarking, merging, splitting, rotating, organising and cropping are free, three documents a day up to ten pages each, with no account.

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